SOA Mashups

Mashups & SOA

This Dev Zone is dedicated to Mashups and SOA. Here's everything the Mashup Developer Community has to say about mashups and their complimentary nature to SOA, whether it's a demo, video, code sample, forum post, Q&A or blog.

Using Mashups to Enhance Your SOA (and Vice Versa)

Posted 09/03/2008 - 17:55 by chriswarner

We've just published a couple of articles in SOA Magazine and SOA World Magazine that greatly expand on the synergy between enterprise mashups and SOA. It's quite a list! [Read More...]

Presto Support for HP Systinet

Posted 09/30/2008 - 09:13 by Jacques Jarman

What is the current plan to support HP Systinet 3.0?

Let's Mash! Get the Presto Developer Edition now!

Posted 10/23/2008 - 17:09 by deepak.alur

Let's Mash! [I wanna hear David Bowie sing that!]
I am excited! We are excited! You see, today is a very special day for us developers at JackBe. We are putting all the work we have been doing over the last 2 years into the hands of the person most important to us - you, the mashup developer! I am happy to announce that we are making the Presto Developer Edition available to everyone for FREE to download and develop enterprise mashups! We are now empowering even more developers to free themselves from some conventional problems they have been dealing with by using, developing, deploying and applying the concept of enterprise mashups.

What's in it for me, did you say?  [Read More...]

Presto and ExtJS

Posted 10/29/2008 - 14:22 by kishores

The Presto Mashup platform is all about bridging the gap between the users and the data. Presto provides Developers with the right set of tools to build these bridges in the form of APIs for Java, JavaScript, ActionScript, Flash/Flex, C# and VBA. In this article, I will walk through a sample that uses the Presto-ExtJS integration library.

Ext JS is a leading Javascript framework for building Cross-browser Rich Internet Applications. While the Presto Developer Edition APIs are open and not tied to any specific Javascript framework, we provide an integration library for Ext JS to make it easy for Ext JS developers to quickly integrate Presto in their applications.

Screenshot of the sample

Ext JS Sample [Read More...]

By the Developer, For the Developer

Posted 10/24/2008 - 16:16 by danmalks

Many of you are test driving the free Developer Edition of our Enterprise Mashup Platform as part of our new Mashup Developer Community (MDC). The Developer Edition is the culmination of years of hard work focused exclusivley on building an Enterprise Mashup Platform from the ground up and we hope you will give it a try. [Read More...]

Mashups : New and Agile way to Integrate

Posted 11/13/2008 - 02:14 by deepak.alur

[Cross-posted from my personal blog]
I came across this interesting post: How Mashups Could Eliminate Integration Projects by Loraine Lawson. In a related post, she refers to John Crupi's article Enterprise Mashups Part I: Bringing SOA to the People which I would recommend to readers who want to understand JackBe's take on defining mashups. Anyway, Loraine's post led me to Ron Schmelzer's ZapFlash. Here are some excerpts of Ron's article that caught my eye, with my take on them.

Excerpt from ZapFlash:

A year or two ago, assuming that a mashup was a web browser-based, static, user interface composition of web-based functionality would be a reasonable presumption. But in the enterprise context, none of those assumptions necessarily hold – we might want non-Web access to mashed applications, we might want to change them regularly, and we might want to mash up information that exists below the user interface abstraction. For sure, Web mashups might embody the ideals of the original mashup concept, but we now have the desire to mash up a wide variety of IT resources from application to infrastructure to data that might be exposed with a wide range of interfaces – or without. And, it’s the desire to mash up information freed from the application that diversifies the mashup term to include the concept of the data mashup.

Introducing the Mashup TierMy take: This hits the point right on what we at JackBe have been saying all along about mashups. While some mashups are done purely in the UI/Browser, in the enterprise, such mashups need to be supported by a new tier, the mashup tier, which sits between the presentation and business tier. So enterprise mashups will have some mashing done in the client, but most of the mashing happens in server side where security, governance, policies can be applied before any mashing can happen in the client. [Read More...]

Forbes' take on "Mashing Up Corporation"

Posted 11/13/2008 - 15:54 by girish

Mashups offer a way to collect and contextualize information from many internal and external information sources and systems of record in such a way that business users can analyze it and take action.

MIT professor Eric von Hippel says that when users are given the tools to create their own solutions, a treasure trove of innovation is opened. This is because users have a "sticky" knowledge of their own requirements that is hard to impart to others who create solutions for them [Read More...]

An Article Worth Reading: 'Enterprise Mashups - The Icing on your SOA'

Posted 11/23/2008 - 21:11 by chriswarner

Much has been written about the synergy between mashups and SOA (we rcapped a lot of it in a recent blog).  Mike Kavis at Toolbox.com has gone one step further and added mashups into the SOA-enabled enterprise archietcture.  

Here's the setup: 

We want to hide the complexity of our architecture from the end user and expose data services to them to consume. At the same time we want these mashups to be equally secure as the services we write and adhere to the same governing principles. Enterprise mashup products provide tools to make managing this layer easy and efficient.

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Presto and XBRL

Posted 11/24/2008 - 11:43 by mcvayw

Since Presto can work with any XML document, it can also work with XBRL, the new standard coming for business reporting.  Working with XBRL is as simple as configuring the namespace properly to parse through the XML nodes.  The simple EMML script below demonstrates the extraction of a value from an XBRL document set up as a Presto REST service. [Read More...]

Presense in a mashup

Posted 11/26/2008 - 14:17 by sgwillett

 

pres·ence 
Pronunciation: \ˈpre-zən(t)s\
Function: noun
Date: 14th century

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The 5 Most Common Mashup Mistakes

Posted 12/04/2008 - 13:22 by chriswarner

I originally published this blog on Fast Company.  Since Joe McKendrick at ZDNet and Loraine Lawson at IT Business Edge deemed it worthy of commentary, I thought all of you might find it interesting reading too.  If so (or not), make sure you let me know what you think!

Mashups are a popular topic lately, in both IT and business circles. Gartner recently named them a ‘Top 10 IT Technology for 2009’. But if your organization is thinking about ‘getting mashy’, here are five common pitfalls that you can avoid with just a little education and forethought...

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An Enterprise Mashup Whitepaper WORTH READING!

Posted 01/06/2009 - 12:51 by jess

In an effort to highlight our best content, I recently re-read our 'Executive Guide to Mashups in the Enterprise' whitepaper written by Dion Hinchcliffe and that lead me straight to you. Since most of you are developers and consider yourself 'mashup mashters', your knowledge and passion compells you to talk mashups at lunch on IM or at the latest mashup conference. But not everyone that you talk to has the same mashup background. Some of us are building mashup applications and some of us are just trying to learn the technology's potential. [Read More...]

Gartner's 'Gartner's 5 predictions for BI in 2009 and beyond' includes mashups

Posted 01/19/2009 - 16:14 by chriswarner

InfoWorld's report on Gartner's top 5 predictions for Business Intelligence for 2009-2012 includes this interesting statement: 'Gartner's fifth prediction is that by 2012 one-third of analytic applications applied to business processes will be delivered via coarse-grained mashups... [Read More...]

Presto Demo at Web 2.0 Expo: Mashing SalesForce and Web Site Analytics into Oracle Portal Server

Posted 04/03/2009 - 02:47 by deepak.alur

Dion Hinchcliffe presented a great 3 hour workshop titled Economics 2.0: Highly Effective Strategies for Putting Your
Business on a Recession Diet. You can read more about it in Social Computing Magazine. During the section on Mashups, Dion invited me up on stage to demonstrate enterprise mashups using Presto.  Here's a recording of my demonstration:

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Cannot Publish My WSDL - NSD Error

Posted 04/13/2009 - 15:13 by khookguy

I have a web service (WSDL) named "StockTraderLogin" that I use for testing.  When I publish it using Presto (developer edition), and then try to load it, I get a dialog box with the following error message:

"Error Generating NSD info for Service : StockTraderLogin"

Here is a snippet of the stack trace from the presto.log: [Read More...]

loading WSDL throws NSDException

Posted 04/21/2009 - 09:23 by rrickell

When loading WSDLs I'm getting com.jackbe.jbp.sas.nsd.NSDException.  How can I get beyond this exception?   I can provide a sample WSDL that triggers this exception.

Problem using my WebService in Presto

Posted 05/25/2009 - 06:31 by cyper

Hello!

I'm new to Presto and try to integrate it for to a small university project. I have written a small WebService to retrieve customer data. I provide the WebService a customer name and it returns me the address. Now I included the WebService to Presto using the WSDL file. The query works but Presto does not show the result. I tested the WebService with Netbeans and it works fine: It returns a String. But the result cannot be shown in my Mashup.

Can you give me any advice?

Thank you very much!

This is the request message: [Read More...]

JackBe or similar Mashup technology position in Los Angeles

Posted 06/26/2009 - 14:28 by K2 Partnering S...

Hello Mashers!

I am an account manager for an IT Staff Augmentation company and my client is currently looking for a JackBe engineer. You may have seen a similar posting on June 24th. I just received a phone call from my client minuts ago and they are in DIRE need of a consultant with the following skills so I decided to reach out to this forum to see if any of you are interested.

This project is for 6 months in the Los Angeles area and starts immediately. Rate is up to $100/hr

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Publishing new web services into Presto Server

Posted 07/17/2009 - 07:59 by Sreevani

Hi,

When I write a new Java Web service(using SOAP for example) in eclipse IDE, how can I publish the same into the Presto server? Is there a demo or document I can look through?

I already have the Eclipse plugin for the Mashup studio and its working without any issues.

Thanks,

Sreevani

Your opinion regarding how complex a Mashlet/Mashup should be!

Posted 09/11/2009 - 11:32 by qedgenx

Hi all,

Recently my users, specially our PMP, have been entering to dark side and beign very creatives with Presto. This is part of their thoughts. "Within mashboard we can create a web app. to send info to others systems, then displaying data from mashups"

"Clicking on mashlet displayed on Sharepoint or Portal Server should act as a multi-screen web application, but embedded and displayed in a web-part, acting as a whole-app" [Read More...]

About Business Mashup

Posted 09/21/2009 - 08:48 by dharmendra.jaiswal

Can any one tell me about Business Mashup and how to create it.

I am very thnkful to you, if any one can share document and any sample code related to Business Mashup.

Thanks in Advance.

What makes a mashup service right for you?

Posted 11/17/2009 - 14:42 by chriswarner

Everyday life is full of decisions. From the time you wake up in the morning to the time you go to bed, you spend most of your time (whether you realize or not) making decisions. It starts from the moment you wake up. What should I wear today? Do I have time for breakfast? Do I think it's going to rain today and do I need my umbrella? And the list goes on... [Read More...]

Presto, Tomcat and Web Services

Posted 12/22/2009 - 13:02 by bniknar

Hello,

I want to build a proof-of-concept with Presto. The goal: a web service which, when called with SoapUI, logs into a Intranet server with username and password, and scrapes data (name and phone number) from a web page. I hope to prove that:

-- Presto can host the web service itself

-- There is a simple GUI tool that can be used to setup the web service: point it to the Intranet server, "show" it the web page to scape, provide username and password for access [Read More...]

Are mashlets compatible with W3C widget specification?

Posted 12/29/2009 - 16:36 by Blythe

Not yet.  They can be delivered at JSR-168 portlets and SharePoint Webparts.  Mashlets are also moving towards the OpenAjax Hub 2.0 specification.