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September/October 2008
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GUEST EDITORS' INTRODUTION
Services
Mashups: The New Generation of Web Applications
Djamal Benslimane, Schahram Dustdar, and Amit Sheth
Web services are becoming a major technology for deploying automated
interactions between distributed and heterogeneous applications, and for
connecting business processes. Service mashups indicate a way to create new Web
applications by combining existing Web resources utilizing data and Web APIs.
They facilitate the design and development of novel and modern Web applications
based on easy-to-accomplish end-user service compositions.
TOWARD INTEGRATION
RPC and
REST: Dilemma, Disruption, and Displacement
Steve Vinoski
Technologists act as if the "REST vs. RPC" debate is purely
technical, but technology choices are never really quite so black and white.
This column examines the non-intuitive theories and evidence behind Clayton
Christensen's "Innovator's Dilemma" to explore technology life cycles,
discuss what makes different customers choose different technologies, and
consider how different types of innovation affect the evolution of integration
products.
WEBSCIENCE
How Will
We Interact with the Web of Data?
Tom Heath
The Web is currently evolving from an information space of linked documents, to
a Web of linked, machine-readable data. Perhaps counter-intuitively, this shift
to publishing data for machine consumption raises many challenges for
human-computer interaction. This article discusses some of the implications of
this trend for how we interact with the Web of data and consider how familiar
tools such as the Web browser may need to develop.
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