Nexablog

This week we got two nice pieces of coverage.

Intelligent Enterprise
Nobody Starts from Scratch on Rich Internet Apps
2/14/08
By: Nelson King
URL: http://www.intelligententerprise.com/blog/archives/2008/02/nobody_starts_f.html

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Also interesting are Anthony Bradley’s comments from the piece by John Waters on the latest release of the Denodo platform.

Excerpts from the article:

“Mashup” has emerged as the buzzword of the Web 2.0 world. However, as an enterprise trend, these lightweight, strategic Web apps that combine content from more than one source have yet to gain any real traction, said Anthony Bradley, research director on the applications architecture team at Gartner.

“There’s really no such thing as a ‘data mashup,’” Bradley said. “‘Mashup’ is the term du jour. This is about companies jumping on a term bandwagon. What Denodo is offering is data integration.”

Gartner uses three criteria to define an enterprise mashup, Bradley explained:

All of the data is externally sourced (you pull info into your application from Google Maps, for example); The technologies are Web-based (HTTP, JASON, RSS, XML, ADAM, etc.), resulting in a browser-based application; and The mashup application is a composite application, such that the source applications are readily apparent (you can look at the mashup and see that you’re using info from Google Maps).
“That gets away from data integration, where you’re normalizing or distilling everything,” Bradley said.

Companies like Nexaweb, JackBe, and Serena are defined by the analysts at Gartner as providers of enterprise mashup platforms because they provide technologies for actually building mashups. But Denodo falls into a Gartner category called “mashup enabler,” which defines products that provide data that is “mashable.” Kapow Technologies and Dapper also fall into this category, Bradley said.

ADT
Denodo Enhances Data Mashup Platform
2/12/2008
By: John K. Waters
URL: http://www.adtmag.com/article.aspx?id=22038

Over in the articles sections of the Nexaweb devcenter section I just finished creating a new entry describing how to Create a plugin for our Ajax client. One of the things that people can take advantage of in Nexaweb’s client architecture is the ability to integrate any third party component of any type (Flash, Ajax, HTML, Java, SilverLight) into their application. Flexibility is a fundamental design philosophy of Nexaweb or what we call a “Pillar of Development”.

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I have spent the last few weeks building examples using XML on top of dojo, including an XML version of the mail application (you can see it here http://trac.dojotoolkit.org/ticket/5766).

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