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 Connectors - Integrating Presto Mashups with HP Systinet SOA Governance

Posted 10/10/2008 - 13:20 by danmalks

A demonstration of the Presto Connector for HP SOA Systinet. You can also watch the original high-resolution version of this video at http://www.screencast.com/t/1PoZ2YpZK.
 

Understanding Presto Components

Posted 10/20/2008 - 21:27 by deepak.alur

Coming Soon: A brief overview of Presto Enterprise Mashup Platform and its components

Video - An Introduction to Presto

Posted 10/21/2008 - 02:47 by deepak.alur

In this video I provide a high-level introduction to Presto Enterprise Mashup Platform. (Approximate length is 20 minutes.) [Read More...]

Mashup Video - EMC Mashing the Data Center

Posted 10/23/2008 - 15:40 by danmalks

This is a demonstration by Steve Graham, Senior Technologist in the Office of the CTO at EMC. Steve demonstrates the integration of information from the Data Center, utilizing Presto Enterprise Mashups. This is a terrific example of the use of Enterprise Mashups for the rapid integration of disparate information sources in an organization.

You can also watch the original high-resolution format at http://www.screencast.com/t/cFF7UAyPE5.

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...]

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...]

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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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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Mashups In Liferay Portal

Posted 12/09/2008 - 12:00 by danmalks

As many of you know, we have a Presto Connector for Enterprise Portals, allowing the quick and easy publishing of mashups and mashlets as JSR168 or WSRP compliant Portlets. [Read More...]

Mashups In Liferay Portal

Posted 12/09/2008 - 12:00 by danmalks

As many of you know, we have a Presto Connector for Enterprise Portals, allowing the quick and easy publishing of mashups and mashlets as JSR168 or WSRP compliant Portlets. [Read More...]

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...]

Only "Loading..." when I try to publish a service

Posted 01/09/2009 - 12:59 by michael.rollins

I tried publishing a service I have here on my local box using the admin console's "Publish Service" button.  The first time I did it, I put in an incorrect wsdl location.  The next time I did it, I put in the correct wsdl, but then the screen went to "Loading..." and stayed there.

Wondering what got hung, I decided to refresh the page.  It came back with an almost blank page with that "Loading..." message. [Read More...]

Only "Loading..." when I try to publish a service

Posted 01/09/2009 - 12:59 by michael.rollins

I tried publishing a service I have here on my local box using the admin console's "Publish Service" button.  The first time I did it, I put in an incorrect wsdl location.  The next time I did it, I put in the correct wsdl, but then the screen went to "Loading..." and stayed there.

Wondering what got hung, I decided to refresh the page.  It came back with an almost blank page with that "Loading..." message. [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...]

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...]