Barely a day goes by at the minute where someone in the tech world isn't talking about Wave, or something new about Wave is being released. This is one of the days where there is something to talk about! Most of the recent noise has been about gaining access to Wave, and the various API's that people now have access to. Those who have access to the Sandbox however, get a something new to experience as Google have opened up Wave for "Federation".
The open source Wave Federation Prototype Server is delivered as a Java application that conforms to XEP-0114, the Jabber Component Protocol. In the examples below we show how to install the Wave Federation Prototype Server as an extension to the Openfire XMPP server, but it should run against any XEP-0114 compliant server. We also have instructions for using Prosody.
The release of Google Wave Federation Prototype Server means is that Google no longer have to worry about their infrastructure being the sole bearer of all the new Waves being created as people can now set up their own Wave servers to share the load. Apparently this is a long way from being the final release and they are asking developers to help them reach this endpoint. In doing this they are effectively taking into account the communities needs, and they are also letting their users finish their software for them which does cut costs. I expect what the result of Federation means is that you'll be able to brand your own Wave servers.
