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Hi, I'm totally new to Wave. After playing with google wave a bit, it strikes me that it would be very interesting to have a sort of wave for a database driving website. For instance, let's imagine you have a standard sort of database driven site. You do something which causes some back end to search the db which is returned to a web page. Once the search is done, it's static in the user's browser.

However, it seems that with xmpp, one could have a totally dynamic pages in that if any of the fields in the remote data changed they could be dynamically changed on all the people's screens viewing the data. Furthermore, instead of having a static query, if the query changed and was still being viewed, it could be updated in real time (like a live chat in google wave).

Instantly some examples might come to mind like stock quotes or other live changing data. Graphing live data as well. Inventory which is changing could update it's quantity available. Multiple people updating a customer's record would see their changes in real time. I can think of many interesting applications which are not in and themselves google waves but probably use the same underlying protocol.

Is there some API that makes writing web apps like this easy? Like maybe an xmpp aware django, tubogears (or even .net) api? Or is this what the google wave api is?

Michael Grant

Hi Michael,

What your probably after is setting up that xmpp architecture that Google has set up yourself. If so, you might want to look at the Jabber Project. I am not familiar with python so have a read of the docs first to see if it does exactly what you want. Also check out xmppy.

Here's a list of software libraries for XMPP. Slightly thorough. Just google the names of ones that sound interesting.

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Wow - that is thorough!

Thanks, I was looking for something like this...now on to research!