Synopses & Reviews
"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
Review
“…represents good value for those who wish to advance their Groove…”(Computer Bulletin, May 2003)
Synopsis
Groove is the leading platform for the next big thing: peer-to-peer (P2P) business applications, which allow people to collaborate in shared workspaces. With content vetted by the Groove team, this insider's guide shows how to develop Groove applications quickly using JScript or VBScript. The CD-ROM features exclusive tools created by the author plus sample code, the Groove Development Kit, and more.
Synopsis
* Groove Preview Edition and Groove Development Kit
About the Author
Phil Stanhope has two decades of experience in business software development, solutions, and outsourcing. Currently the CEO of Componentry Solutions, a ?rm developing next-generation CRM and ERP software, he has also worked at Perot Systems, Gold Hill Computers, and Palladian Software. From 1989 to 1996, he was at Lotus Development Corporation, where, as founder and chief architect of Lotus's Next Generation Products Group, he got to know Groove Networks founder (and Lotus Notes creator) Ray Ozzie.
Table of Contents
Part I: Groove Fundamentals.
Chapter 1: The Groove Workspace.
Chapter 2: Understanding Shared Spaces and Tools.
Part II: Tools.
Chapter 3: Developing Tools.
Chapter 4: Working with UI Components.
Chapter 5: Working with Engine Components.
Chapter 6: Dialog Boxes and Subforms.
Chapter 7: Data Integration Techniques.
Chapter 8: Awareness, Identity, and Messaging.
Part III: End-to-End Integration.
Chapter 9: Groove-Enabling a Web Site.
Appendix A: What's on the CD-ROM.
Appendix B: Groove Component Catalog.
Appendix C: Glossary.
Index.
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