IBM Seems to pay close attention to the mashup technology and buzz.
Today IBM announced a group of interesting new product portfolio, all in the area of mashups for business.
Mashups - a kind of application flows that enable rapidly creation of new applications in a form of widgets / portlets - just with much easier programming skills and models.
Mashups are to be consumed and used by end users and business users within the organization, allowing data and front end integration in a simple manner.
IBM announced the following tools available:
* WebSphere Portal v6.1 - the 6.1 is the new part here. Yet, no mashups for this one, but improved Web2.0 capabilities, exciting AJAX support (based on DOJO) and ease of deployment.
* InfoSphere MashupHub - lightweight information management environment for IT professionals who wish to unlock and share web, departmental, personal and enterprise infromation for use in REST-style Web 2.0 applications. It is a kind of ESB for mashes. Includes a very nice visual tool for transformation and re-mixing of feeds.
* Lotus Mashups - mashup environment that supports fast and easy assembly of enterprise and Web content into simple, flexible and dynamic applications.
* WebSphere sMash - I've seen this in work more deeply. Provides developers with an agile development environment to deliver script-like based mini applications (in PHP, Groovy and alike). This one was codenamed Project Zero.
These all combine to a protfolio of products in the area of mashups. Not sure yet how they'll address security and enterprise connectivity issues...
IBM is working together with others on industry standards for the mashups in something known as iGadget protocol that exposes the gadget interface in a standard manner.
One another interesting issue about project Zero - It is an open project developed by ibm and allows people to see the source code, report issues (bugs and requirements) and see all design and architecture documents. Yet, the project is solely developed by IBMers. Numbers of participants though are pretty low (IMHO) - 1000 registered users, 15000 downloads.
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Do you want to develop with Smash in a cloud computing environment? Try Amazon Machine Images
http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/entry.jspa?externalID=2047
Interesting.
I see more and more IBM cloud-based services.
This indeed seems a more proper use of sMash than enterprise intranet applications.
See this interesting initiative by IBM - http://www.devoxx.com/display/JV08/BPM+2.0+-+A+REST+based+architecture+for+next+generation+workflow+management
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