Few words about Mashup
In today’s web world, importance of APIs and
web services are increasing exponentially. Same data should be accessed on any
device seamlessly from android device to mainframe servers. These things become
possible using web services. It may be possible that, web service may not
complete some requirements of users.
Mashup is combination or aggregation of two or more application’s information in a single place. A web service or application that combines data or presentation or functionality from two or more sources to create new services is called mashup. It should be created quickly.
Types of mashups:-
1. Enterprise mashups: Combines
information or APIs of different department or different companies to visualize
and analyze results more quickly and efficiently. Generally define applications
that combine their own resources, application and data, with other external web
services. They focus data into a single presentation and allow for
collaborative action among businesses and developers. Enterprise mashups are
secure, visually rich Web applications that expose actionable information from
diverse internal and external information sources. For example, an agile
development project requires collaboration between the developers and customer
for defining and implementing the business requirements.
2. Consumer mashups: Combines different data in
such a way that, the outcome of that will be useful to people. It creates a new
and distinct web service that was not originally provided by either source. For
example, Wikipediavision combines Google Map and a Wikipedia API. Insta-earth
is mashup that provides instagram photos by location on map.
Mashups
can be created using simple web interface. For easy integration of data, some
mashup tools are available. A good definition for a mashup tool is a solution that allows
developers to combine interesting data and then visualize that data through a
web application. Some good mashup
tools are wavemaker – an online application maker, yahoo pipes – drag and drop
mashup creator.
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