Mashup FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions - JavaScript
- Can you only pull live data in via XLS files, or from SOA, JDBC, API, etc. and if you can, how?
- Are mashlets output as JSF Components?
- I guess the Silverlight question is really: do you have an API that allows me to do that binding? Or do I need to do it myself at this point?
- What is the deliverable to the client? A mashup? Mashlet? I'm trying to understand how the application dev process changes in a mashup architecture.
- Can you please review what the outcome are of the mashup? RSS / GRID / CHART anything else? .. HTML?
- How the Mashups are being handled for different devices display capacity (PC, iPhone, Blackberries, etc)?
- Can widgets only be viewed on web browsers or is there support for programmatically accessing widget data from .NET or Java?
- How would you compare or link J2EE patterns with Mashup patterns?
- Some “mashups” have ability to support some business logic (eg: scripting languages)… are these considered mashups?
- How is the challenge of data sanitation and denormalization addressed in JackBe?
- The mashlet UI support OOTB is simply but has limited features, right? e.g., it's not possible if the users want to define some drag and drop features with JavaScript?
- What charting package(s) do you use? Is there an available list of the specific chart types available? Is it possible to extend the existing chart set with 3rd party charting packages?
- Is it required to compile the mashup separately for its deployment into .Net and J2EE containers? Does it require separate code base?
- Are the Presto services exposed to other systems such as OpenESB?
- Can you discuss your view on difference between (if any) a WSRP/JSR168 compliant portlet with a composite service behind it?
- Can we mashup two different databases...like SQLServer and Siebel ? I mean is it dependent on a particular technology?
