Hosted Universal Integration on the Web: The mashArt Platform

Abstract

Traditional integration practices like Enterprise Application Integration and Enterprise Information Integration approaches typically focus on the application layer and the data layer in software systems, i.e., on limited and specific development aspects. Current web mashup practices, instead, show that there is also a concrete need for (i) integration at the presentation layer and (ii) integration approaches that conciliate all the three layers together. In this demonstration, we show how our mashArt approach addresses these challenges and provides skilled web users with universal integration in a hosted fashion.

A Framework for Concern-Sensitive, Client-Side Adaptation

“…Mashups are an interesting alternative for final users to combine existing resources and services in a new specialized application. Visual and intuitive tools such as [5,14] simplify the development of these applications. Since most Web applications do not provide Web services to access their functionality or information, [10] proposes a novel approach to integrate contents of third party applications by describing and extracting these contents at the client side and to use these contents later by generating virtual Web services that allow accessing them.…”

“…More recently different technologies provide users with tools allowing them to change the way Web content was presented. For example, using visual Mashups [5,14], users can compose content hosted by diverse Web sites and they can run Greasemonkey scripts [9] to change third part Web applications by adding content and/or controls (e.g. highlight search results in Amazon.com which refer to Kindle).…”

A Tool Support for Web Applications Adaptation Using Navigation History

“…Recent technologies provide users with tools for changing the way Web content is displayed. For example, visual Mashups [7,17], support the integration of content hosted by diverse web sites and Greasemonkey scripts [10] allow users to change third part web applications by adding content and/or controls (e.g. to highlight search results in Amazon.com which refer to Kindle).…”

Situation fencing

“…Situations have been studied in pervasive/ubiquitous computing [44,17], context aware systems [18,19], GIS [20], sensor networks [21], active databases/ complex event processing [22], multimedia processing [23], mobile information systems [24], web data mining, social computing [25], and mash-up computing [26]. Each area however has its own perspective [27].…”