Google Wave is an online software application formerly developed by Google. It was described as “a new web application for real-time communication and collaboration”. Google Wave was first announced at the Google I/O conference on May 27, 2009. Since then Google Wave was one of Google’s biggest and most ambitious projects, but it failed due to its complexity as just a real-time messaging tool.
This new internet communication platform, developed using Java with OpenJDK and Google Web Toolkit as the user interface engine, will no longer be supported by Google Inc. Google officially announced that on their official blog here. As Google stated there, they will keep maintaining Google Wave until the end of this year.
Even though Google Wave failed as a real-time communication and collaboration tool, its development pushed the boundaries of computer science. Google Wave had cutting-edge technologies like sharing images and other media in real time, improving spell-checking by understanding not just an individual word but also the context of each word, and enabling third-party developers to build new tools like consumer gadgets for travel, or robots to check code. These technologies could be used and added to other Google products for better service, performance, and experience for us.