Towards Flexible Mashup of Web Applications Based on Information Extraction and Transfer

Mashup combines information or functionality from two or more existing Web sources to create a new Web page or application. The Web sources that are used to build mashup applications mainly include Web applications and Web services. The traditional way of building mashup applications is using Web services by writing a script or a program to invoke those Web services. To help the users without programming experience to build flexible mashup applications, we propose a mashup approach of Web applications in this paper. Our approach allows users to build mashup applications with existing Web applications without programming. In addition, with our approach users can transfer information between Web applications to implement consecutive query mashup applications. This approach is based on the information extraction, information transfer and functionality emulation methods. Our implementation shows that general Web applications can also be used to build mashup applications easily, without pro...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2010
• Where: WISE
• Authors: Junxia Guo, Hao Han, Takehiro Tokuda
• Keywords: Internet Technology, Mashup Applications, Web Application, Web Services, WISE 2010