Available in English | Initial release January 28, 2008 Operating system | |
Stable release 2.0.2 / May 13, 2010 (2010-05-13) | ||
The WSO2 Mashup Server is an open source mashup platform that hosts JavaScript based mashups. It is based on Apache Axis2 and other open source projects, and provides JavaScript authors the ability to consume, compose and emit web services, feeds, scraped web pages, email, and instant messages. The source code is freely available under the open source Apache License. It provides a runtime platform for developing and deploying mashups. It can be downloaded and deployed locally or within an organization.
Contents
The WSO2 Mashup Server is web services centric in that each mashup exposes a new web service, which can be consumed by other mashups, web service clients, or Ajax style web pages. The securability of web services make them an attractive technology within organizations deploying a service-oriented architecture (SOA) and for business mashups.
JavaScript as a mashup composition language
Mashups are composed using server side JavaScript in the WSO2 Mashup Server. A set of language extensions along with E4X provides domain specific features such as;
Web scraping
The syntax is identical to another open source web scraping tool called web harvest.