Mashup Patterns: Designs and Examples for the Modern Enterprise, Rough Cuts

Description

• Copyright 2009
• Dimensions: 7 X 9-1/4
• Pages: 432
• Edition: 1st

• Rough Cuts
• ISBN-10: 0-321-59207-7
• ISBN-13: 978-0-321-59207-1

This is a working draft of a pre-release book. It is available before the published date as part of the Rough Cuts service.

Indispensable Patterns and Insights for Putting Mashups to Work in Enterprise Environments

Using new mashup tools and technologies, enterprise developers can impose their own APIs on everything from Web sites and RSS feeds to Excel and PDF files–transforming a world of content into their own customized informationsource. In Mashup Patterns, Michael Ogrinz applies the concept of software development patterns to mashups, systematically revealing the right ways to build enterprise mashups and providing useful insights to help organizations avoid the mistakes that cause mashups to fail.

Drawing on extensive experience building business-critical mashups, Ogrinz offers patterns and realistic guidance for every stage of the mashup development lifecycle and addresses the key issues developers, architects, and managers will face. Each pattern is documented with a practical description, specific use cases, and crucial insights into the stability of mashups built with it. Ogrinz concludes by presenting twelve start-to-finish case studies demonstrating mashup patterns at work in actual enterprise settings.

Coverage includes:

• Understanding the relationships among mashups, portals, SOA, EAI/EII, and SaaS
• Exploring core mashup activities such as data management, surveillance, clipping, transformation, enrichment, publication, and promotion
• Optimizing security, privacy, accessibility, usability, and performance
• Managing mashup development, from planning and governance through integration, testing, and deployment
• Enhancing basic mashups with search, language translation, workflow support, and other improvements
• Performing effective load and regression testing
• Avoiding “anti-patterns” that cause enterprise mashups to fail

Also of interest: The companion book, Mashups: Strategies for the Modern Enterprise by J. Jeffrey Hanson (Addison-Wesley), is an indispensable guide to designing, implementing, and debugging an enterprise mashup, offering sample code to illustrate key concepts.

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Table of Contents

Preface xiii

Acknowledgments xix

About the Author xxiii

About the Cover Picture xxv

Chapter 1: Understanding Mashup Patterns 1

Introduction 1

Web 2.0 2

Enterprise 2.0 4

The Birth of Mashups 7

Types of Mashups 9

Acquiring Data from the Web 12

The Long Tail 18

Meeting User Demand 19

Mashups and the Corporate Portal 20

Mashups and Service-Oriented Architecture 22

Mashups and EAI/EII 24

Mashups and Software as a Service 25

Mashups and the User 27

A Patterns Primer 28

The Fragility Factor 29

The Future of Mashups 31

Chapter 2: Mashup Patterns Terminology 33

Introduction 33

Semantics 33

Structure 36

Where’s the UML? 38

Summary 39

Chapter 3: Core Activities 41

Introduction 41

Support for Open Standards 42

Data Extraction 44

Data Entry 48

Data Visualization 51

Scheduling and Surveillance 53

Clipping 54

Transformation and Enrichment 56

Action 59

Publication and Promotion 62

Assembly Canvas 63

Summary 65

Chapter 4: Harvest Patterns 67

Introduction 67

Alerter 70

API Enabler 76

Competitive Analysis 83

Infinite Monkeys 90

Leading Indicator 96

Reality Mining 102

Reputation Management 109

Time Series 115

Chapter 5: Enhance Patterns 121

Introduction 121

Accessibility 123

Feed Factory 129

Field Medic 135

Folksonomy Enabler 141

Fragility Reducer 146

Smart Suggestions 151

Super Search 158

Translation 165

Usability Enhancer 171

Workflow 180

Chapter 6: Assemble Patterns 189

Introduction 189

Communication and Collaboration 191

Content Aggregation 199

Content Integration 207

Distributed Drill-Down 213

Emergency Response 218

Filter 226

Location Mapping 233

Splinter 239

Chapter 7: Manage Patterns 245

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