Hi Toby, I'll just respond on my area of expertise (robots), the rest will be picked up by the others.
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 8:16 PM, Toby <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi guys, > > I'm planning to use WIAB for a project which should be ready for the > end of the year, and I'm hoping to get some advice from the group on > whether this is realistic or not. > > My project would involve a custom web-client to provide searching and > filtering of waves, and a number of robots interacting with the waves > when certain criteria are met. > > I'm finding it difficult to understand what has been implemented, and > what has not. My particular areas of concern are: > > * Persistance - from the FAQ, I notice that persistance has not been > implemented. So when the server is restarted, waves are lost. Is this > still the case? > > * Active API / Data APIs - I have specific uses for both the Active > API and the Data API. I have a prototype running against the sandbox > which is great, but I'm unsure if WIAB is ready for me to migrate to > using a hosted instance. Any ideas on this? > The Active API and Data API plumbing is implemented, meaning that the server has endpoints for receiving messages from a robot. However most of the operations and events(for the passive API) are yet to be done, see also [0]. More events and operations are becoming available every week and if you need something specific it should be fairly easy to send in a patch for it, feel free to ask us for pointers. > * Authentication - What's the current state of this? Both how an end- > user would authenticate against my application, and server-server > authentication. > > Also - just a general question regarding the timescales of my > application. Realistically, do you think WIAB is ready for production > quite yet, or do you think a delivery deadline of the end of this year > is unfeasible if I'm planning to work with WIAB as a core technology? > In order to achieve that deadline, we'd probably need WIAB to be as > complete as it's going to be by early November, and I'm currently > unsure if this is doable. > What are your needs? Is it a university project or a real business application? Greetings, Lennard [0] http://groups.google.com/group/wave-protocol/browse_thread/thread/aee34a503d25f9e -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Wave Protocol" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/wave-protocol?hl=en.
