Web services are a consolidated reality of the modern Web with tremendous, increasing
impact on everyday computing tasks. They turned the Web into the largest, most accepted …

With the tremendous growth in mobile phones, mobile application development is an
important emerging arena. Moreover, various applications fail to serve the purpose of getting …

Many industrial enterprises acquire disparate systems and applications over the years. The
need to integrate these different systems and applications is often prominent for satisfying …

Research on the Internet of Things (IoT) has devoted many efforts to technological aspects.
Little social and practical benefits have emerged so far. IoT devices, so-called smart objects …

Web mashups are Web applications developed using contents and services available
online. Despite rapidly increasing interest in mashups over the past two years …

After introducing the core constituents of mashups, the components, in this chapter we study
what it means to integrate different components into composite applications, that is …

This volume provides an overview and an understanding of REST (Representational State
Transfer). Discussing the constraints of REST the book focuses on REST as a type of web …

Mashup is a new application development approach that allows users to aggregate multiple
services to create a service for a new purpose. Even if the Mashup approach opens new and …

A new paradigm, known as Enterprise Mashups, has been gain momentum during the last
years. By empowering actual business end-users to create and adapt individual enterprise …

The development of user interfaces (UIs) is one of the most time-consuming aspects in
software development. In this context, the lack of proper reuse mechanisms for UIs is …