Mashups for Data Integration: An Analysis

Mashup is a new application development approach that allows users aggregate multiple services, each serving its own purpose, to create a service that serves a new purpose. Even if the Mashup approach opens new and broader opportunities for data/service consumers, the development process still requires the users to know, not only understand how to write code using languages, but also how to use the different Web APIs from all services. The objective of this study is to analyze the richnesses and weaknesses of the Mashup tools. In particular, we identify the behaviors and characteristics of general Mashup applications and analyze the tools with respect to the key aspects from the Mashup applications. We believe that this kind of study is important to drive future contributions in this emerging area where a lot of research and application fields, such as databases, user machine interaction, etc., can meet.

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