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® 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® 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