Towards a Reference Architecture for Enterprise Mashups
Javier López, Alberto Pan-Bermudez, Francisco Bellas, Paula Montoto · 2008
Abstract. Mashup applications combine pieces of functionality from several existing websites to provide new integrated functionality. Existing mashup tools typically address only some aspects of the problem and use a variety of sometimes overlapping and sometimes complementary approaches that make it difficult to compare them. In this ‘work in progress’ paper, we present a first draft of one reference architecture aiming to ease this task. We also discuss in more detail two crucial layers of the architecture: the Data Mashup and Widget Assembly layers. For these layers, we identify their main design aspects and we briefly identify and compare the different approaches to address them.