Get in the Groove

Download or read book Get in the Groove written by Phil Stanhope and published by Wiley. This book was released on 2002-05-24 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Phil Stanhope delivers what I consider to be a recipe-based approach to building tools and applications for the Groove decentralized communications platform. Phil isn't just a short-order cook; he's a master chef." -Jack Ozzie, Vice President of Development, Platform and Development Services, Groove Networks, Inc. Building Tools and Peer-to-Peer Solutions with the Groove(r) Platform The Groove platform makes peer-to-peer workgroup collaboration easier than ever. With this unique developer's guide, you'll discover how to customize Groove for specific business needs - taking Groove collaboration and ease of use to the next level. Using plenty of code examples in JavaScript, C++, and Visual Basic, veteran Groove developer Phil Stanhope shows you step by step how to create your own Groove tools and layouts and integrate contact management, Web-based customer management services, and data from enterprise systems. Take Groove(r) to the Next Level * Understand Groove basics - the transceiver, contacts, messaging, chatting, spaces, and accounts * Create, test, and refine custom HTML viewer tools to integrate existing Web content into Groove * Streamline development by extracting template code from existing tools * Create your own custom Groove layout * Integrate contact management with invitation files and online detection tools * Enhance a customer-service Web site by adding a Groove collaboration space with seeded customer data and tools * Understand the basics of next-generation edge-based CRM applications by synchronizing center-based enterprise data with custom edge-based tools * Import and export Groove-specific XML as well as third-party XML data from corporate databases and Web-enabled CRM and ERP systems * Exploit Groove's communications, security, and transport services to build asynchronous, guaranteed-delivery message and data-synchronization solutions CD-ROM includes: * Sample Groove tools * Complete source code and examples from the book * Groove Preview Edition and Groove Development Kit