Real Time Collabarative editor API

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I'm writing an application in which I'd like to have near real time collaborative editing features for documents, similar to Google Documents style editing.

As I am new to this, I would just like to know of some APIs, if any, that exist. I went through JInfinote
Are there any other APIs better than this?
Suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 06 '13 at 14:42

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I would suggest looking into Firebase (https://www.firebase.com/), here is an example of what are you are looking to do: http://www.firepad.io/ which is opensource.

answered Sep 06 '13 at 14:42

Rob M.

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I went through link. Its what exactly i need in functionality perspective. But it requires Node.js to be installed, which i am not using for my application. Anyways thanks for suggestion – Abhishek Sep 06 '13 at 15:22
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Not sure what language you are using but there are clients for other languages than Node: PHP - https://github.com/ktamas77/firebase-php, Java - http://robert-reiz.com/2012/04/22/java-driver-for-firebase/, .NET is in the works - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10729878/firebase-net-access – Rob M. Sep 07 '13 at 02:11

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 06 '13 at 14:46

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You may take a look to Mozilla TowTruck (github page).

It's an open source project, you may work on their base.
(or you may just use it and be happy)

answered Sep 06 '13 at 14:46

Fez Vrasta

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Real Time Collabarative editor API

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