An Evaluation of Mashup Tools Based on Support for Heterogeneous Mashup Components

Aghaee, Saeed; Pautasso, Cesare

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-27997-3_1

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“…On the basis of these scenarios, the strengths and weakness of the development of mashup tools were discussed. On one hand, Aghaee and Pautasso presented an evaluation of mashup development tools based on support for heterogeneous mashup components in terms of technologies, access methods, and the behavior they exhibit within a mashup application. This evaluation took into account criteria of five mashup tools, such as data format, access method, output, and behavior.…”

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A systematic review of tools, languages, and methodologies for mashup development

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SUMMARYWeb 2.0 has become a powerful means of transmitting information in a number of fields, such as communication, e-commerce, and entertainment. Nowadays, companies and organizations transmit specific information through different mechanisms, such as Web feeds and Web services. These data sources enable third parties to incorporate data from service providers into their own applications. On the basis of this understanding, mashups have emerged as a new approach to develop applications and which combine data and resources from heterogeneous sources-such as internal data sources, Web feeds, screen scraping, and Web services-with the aim of solving specific needs. Mashup development involves activities such as accessing heterogeneous sources, combining data from different data sources, and building graphical interfaces. These activities restrict the development of these kinds of applications only to experienced computer users. Today, a number of tools and programming languages are used to help carry out some of the aforementioned activities. These tools and programming languages have features enabling the integration of different technologies in order to solve problems such as data management from different data sources and content publication. If this is taken into account, there is a growing need to learn about the features, advantages, and disadvantages of these tools and programming languages in order to select the tool or language that best fits a specific need and a specific level of knowledge and experience in terms of software development. This paper presents a systematic review and analysis of the tools, programming languages, and software development methodologies involved in mashup development in order to learn more about the features and services provided by mashups. Furthermore, this research also explains the qualitative and quantitative evaluation used for the mashup development tools. The evaluation was performed in order to measure not only the usability of these tools but also the support that they provide for standardized features of Web development that they provide. Finally, new trends in the development of mashups are discussed.

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A systematic review of tools, languages, and methodologies for mashup development

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“…Other surveys of the mashup literature [2] have developed a number of evaluation criteria and identified shortcomings of existing approaches. Among these shortcomings are lacks of support for (i) event-based behavior, (ii) component discovery features, and (iii) language-dependent mashup components.…”

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A Web-based Platform for Dynamic Integration of Heterogeneous Data

Trinh

Wetz

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Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Information Integration and Web-Based Applications &Amp; Services

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Whereas the number of open and accessible data sources on the web is growing rapidly, data becomes more heterogeneous and is difficult to use or reuse. Even though many national and international organizations have published their data according to the Linked Data principles, a considerable number of data sources is still available in traditional formats, e.g., HTML, XML, CSV, JSON. This results in a challenge of data aggregation and integration. To address this issue, we apply the visual programming paradigm to develop an open web platform. The platform is based on Semantic Web technologies and aims at encouraging and facilitating use of heterogeneous Open Data sources. We define Linked Widgets as user-driven modules which support users in accessing, processing, integrating, and visualizing different kinds of data. By connecting Linked Widgets from different developers, users without programming skills can compose and share ad-hoc applications that combine Open Data sources in a creative manner.

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“…A uniform meta-model adapts heterogeneous mashup component interfaces to a common interface, and its aspect of being easy-to-understand is thus defined by how much its interface conceals the information about the underlying component technologies. This challenge is not fully addressed by the state-of-the art mashup tools as the majority of them do not support all types of mashup components [2].…”

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The mashup component description language

Aghaee

Pautasso

2011

Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Information Integration and Web-Based Applications and Services

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Mashups can be seen as the result of software composition applied to the Web. One of the characteristics of mashup development is the heterogeneity of its building components in terms of logical layering (e.g., user interface, application logic, and data), access method (e.g., REST, SOAP), and composition technique (e.g., scraping vs. clipping, synchronous vs. asynchronous interaction, discrete vs. streaming). This poses a challenge towards the design of mashup tools aiming at lowering the barriers of mashup development, as this heterogeneity needs to be abstracted. In this paper, we address this challenge by proposing a new JSONbased domain-specific language for describing heterogeneous mashup components, called the Mashup Component Description Language (MCDL). MCDL lies at the core of a meta-model for mashup component modeling, and can be used for component discovery and classification but also for user-centric mashup development as it decouples the interface of a mashup component from its underlying implementation technologies.

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An Evaluation of Mashup Tools Based on Support for Heterogeneous Mashup Components

Cited by 8 publications

References 15 publications

A systematic review of tools, languages, and methodologies for mashup development

A systematic review of tools, languages, and methodologies for mashup development

A Web-based Platform for Dynamic Integration of Heterogeneous Data

The mashup component description language

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