One you have a prototype push link up and running; server and client able to reach each other on demand, the rest is just a simple matter of user authentication, managing timestamps, and maintaining consistency between the server side data-structure modeling the shared "object" being collaberated on, and the disparate views the users have of it in their clients.
This stuff can't be trivially made into a framework, because "collaboration" is not a particular problem, but a whole class of same-same but different problems (as Thais would say.)
Sure it wouldn't be trivial to be made into a framework, but from what I understand, a framework for "collaboration" seems at least possible since I think this is one of Google Wave's goals.
This stuff can't be trivially made into a framework, because "collaboration" is not a particular problem, but a whole class of same-same but different problems (as Thais would say.)