Websphere sMash released to critical acclaim
WebSphere sMash is a development and execution environment for dynamic web applications.
WebSphere sMash advances Smart SOA's simplicity and accelerates the alignment of Business and IT by allowing Developers to quickly deliver dynamic Web 2.0 based applications.
- Based on the highly-acclaimed public incubator, Project Zero. Supports some of today's hottest dynamic scripting languages - PHP and Groovy.
- Unleash and reuse enterprise content, including SOA services, as RESTful services
- Enable rapid aggregation of disparate services and feeds
- Extends the reach of SOA – effectively using the web as your SOA platform
- An agile development environment - small footprint, easy to modify, fast re-start
Introducing WebSphere sMash – Leveraging Web 2.0 to Meet the "Situational" Needs of Business
In today’s market climate, there is increased pressure to build applications quickly to answer the situational needs of the business -- for example, applications to handle specific budget issues, users registering for an event, or the flow of an online transaction. These situational needs are being satisfied more easily than ever before by a growing number of services on the web and revolve around new programming approaches, mainly dynamic scripting languages such as PHP and Groovy.
Sometimes the needs of the business call for the creation of strategic core business applications, but more often, an application is needed to fulfill a more tactical need. To make these types of situational applications feasible from a cost/benefit perspective, they should be simple to create, support reuse and sharing of services, and be quickly adaptable as the needs of the group or user change.
IBM WebSphere® sMash software is a development and execution platform based on the highly-acclaimed public incubator Project Zero (hosted at projectzero.org). WebSphere sMash advances Smart SOA’s simplicity and accelerates the alignment of Business and IT by allowing developers to quickly and simply deliver dynamic Web 2.0 based applications, enabling mashups.
WebSphere sMash for Developers:
Unleash Content as REST Services
Representational State Transfer (REST) is an architectural style that allows services to be exposed and consumed over the Web using only a simple URL. Leveraging REST technology, WebSphere sMash extends SOA to the web -- effectively using the Web as the SOA platform.
Using WebSphere sMash, companies can enable new models of revenue by unleashing their content to the world as REST services, take advantage of the huge array of REST services available on the Web to build new applications, and easily reuse these assets in future projects.
Leverage the Power of Scripting for Agile Development
Because WebSphere sMash applications are based on dynamic scripting, they can be run without any compilation -- a feature which eases the overhead of application development and makes modification and customization easy.
WebSphere sMash supports two dynamic scripting languages, PHP Hypertext Preprocessor (commonly known as PHP), and Groovy, a dynamic scripting language which leverages existing Java skills.
Furthermore, because WebSphere sMash only uses the modules it needs, the storage and memory footprints are exceptionally small (You can even run it from a USB key!) and the server can restart in seconds!
Quickly Combine Services and Feeds with Visual Tools
WebSphere sMash offers visual assembly-style development for designing server-side business logic as well as visual design editors for designing rich user interfaces.
Using the visual assembly tool, developers can easily tie together disparate services and feeds into new applications and create server-side business logic (such as exchanging data with a backend system or kicking off an approval process via an e-mail).
WebSphere sMash -- In Three Words
Speed:
- Dynamic scripting languages
- Fewer lines of code
- Browser-based tooling
Simplicity:
- Leverage pre-existing content
- Use the web as your SOA platform
- Visual Assembly-style development
Agility:
- Small footprint
- Easily modify your applications
- Restart the server in seconds
WebSphere sMash advances Smart SOA's simplicity and accelerates the alignment of Business and IT by allowing Developers to quickly deliver dynamic Web 2.0 based applications.
- Based on the highly-acclaimed public incubator, Project Zero. Supports some of today's hottest dynamic scripting languages - PHP and Groovy.
- Unleash and reuse enterprise content, including SOA services, as RESTful services
- Enable rapid aggregation of disparate services and feeds
- Extends the reach of SOA – effectively using the web as your SOA platform
- An agile development environment - small footprint, easy to modify, fast re-start
Introducing WebSphere sMash – Leveraging Web 2.0 to Meet the "Situational" Needs of Business
In today’s market climate, there is increased pressure to build applications quickly to answer the situational needs of the business -- for example, applications to handle specific budget issues, users registering for an event, or the flow of an online transaction. These situational needs are being satisfied more easily than ever before by a growing number of services on the web and revolve around new programming approaches, mainly dynamic scripting languages such as PHP and Groovy.
Sometimes the needs of the business call for the creation of strategic core business applications, but more often, an application is needed to fulfill a more tactical need. To make these types of situational applications feasible from a cost/benefit perspective, they should be simple to create, support reuse and sharing of services, and be quickly adaptable as the needs of the group or user change.
IBM WebSphere® sMash software is a development and execution platform based on the highly-acclaimed public incubator Project Zero (hosted at projectzero.org). WebSphere sMash advances Smart SOA’s simplicity and accelerates the alignment of Business and IT by allowing developers to quickly and simply deliver dynamic Web 2.0 based applications, enabling mashups.
WebSphere sMash for Developers:
Unleash Content as REST Services
Representational State Transfer (REST) is an architectural style that allows services to be exposed and consumed over the Web using only a simple URL. Leveraging REST technology, WebSphere sMash extends SOA to the web -- effectively using the Web as the SOA platform.
Using WebSphere sMash, companies can enable new models of revenue by unleashing their content to the world as REST services, take advantage of the huge array of REST services available on the Web to build new applications, and easily reuse these assets in future projects.
Leverage the Power of Scripting for Agile Development
Because WebSphere sMash applications are based on dynamic scripting, they can be run without any compilation -- a feature which eases the overhead of application development and makes modification and customization easy.
WebSphere sMash supports two dynamic scripting languages, PHP Hypertext Preprocessor (commonly known as PHP), and Groovy, a dynamic scripting language which leverages existing Java skills.
Furthermore, because WebSphere sMash only uses the modules it needs, the storage and memory footprints are exceptionally small (You can even run it from a USB key!) and the server can restart in seconds!
Quickly Combine Services and Feeds with Visual Tools
WebSphere sMash offers visual assembly-style development for designing server-side business logic as well as visual design editors for designing rich user interfaces.
Using the visual assembly tool, developers can easily tie together disparate services and feeds into new applications and create server-side business logic (such as exchanging data with a backend system or kicking off an approval process via an e-mail).
WebSphere sMash -- In Three Words
Speed:
- Dynamic scripting languages
- Fewer lines of code
- Browser-based tooling
Simplicity:
- Leverage pre-existing content
- Use the web as your SOA platform
- Visual Assembly-style development
Agility:
- Small footprint
- Easily modify your applications
- Restart the server in seconds
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