Mashup Technologies for Building End-user Enabled Business Portal

Abstract

Mashup refers to an integrated Application Programming Interface (API) that combines data from different data destination or third party sources for web services. This web service provides a combined API that is technologically valid and compatible with other web applications. In recent years, web Mashups have been implemented for solving many issues in existing web applications, such as e-library. In this paper, we demonstrate a Mashup prototype by analysing a real service problem in an existing virtual organization to show current limitations of using a distributed architecture. This paper also presents an analysis of web service orientated architectures using the Mashup concept. Based on the case issues in classical web portals, we outline a generic architecture that offers a dynamic solution for providing services to better meet users' needs.