This week, Google introduced “Google Gears” which is described as:
Google Gears is an open source browser extension that lets developers create web applications that can run offline. Google Gears consists of three modules that address the core challenges in making web applications work offline.
- LocalServer: Cache and serve application resources (HTML, JavaScript, images, etc.) locally.
- Database: Store data locally in a fully-searchable relational database.
- WorkerPool: Make your web applications more responsive by performing resource-intensive operations asynchronously.
Like most things “Google”, this toolkit is in “beta”, but the best part is that it’s open source under the BSD license. I think I’ll try to prototype some kind of offline sync for Alfresco.
Other Google-y things of interest to developers:
- GWT: Open source “Google Web Toolkit” for building. There’s also an interesting blog post about GWT and Gears.
- GData: The open specification for Google Data APIs built on ATOM and RSS.
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Alfresco + Liferay: West Coast Community Meetup
Join us on July 18th, 2007 in Ontario, California for our first CMS and Portal community event. Learn more at: http://alfrescoliferay.osmeet.com
