Mashup FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions - EMML

What are the differences between Presto Wires and Presto Mashup Studio? Do we need both at the same time or is Presto Wires sufficient for our needs?
What are the differences between Presto Wires and Presto Mashup Studio? Do we need both at the same time or is Presto Wires sufficient for our needs?
Did you do any data scrubbing from the legacy sources?
How do you run the EMML? Only from the Wires interface?
Is there a programmatic interface for adding services and mashups, or is everything done through the GUI? Meaning, can I write a script to add my services and mashups? How is the configuration saved? How do I back it up?
How do you handle EMML versioning?
Is there a plan to submit EMML to an international standards body such as OASIS?
What if I need to do a string manipulation on Job_ID, in order to match the IDs? e.g., if one source was JobID=00011 and another field was a taxonomical derivative of JobID such as PositionID=CsCI00011, where I need to strip off CsCI in order to make it match. Can I call a java method to strip this?
Is there some sort of international standard for enterprise mashups in the same way that WSDL is for web services?
Are you using WebDAV or servlets to publish EMML?
Isn’t screen scraping error prone? (It can break very very easily).
If custom 'mashlets' have to be developed, what's the benefit of developing a mashup versus developing a web application using traditional tooling? Are there productivity benefits you've seen?
What are the best practices to mitigate website saturation if one or several mashups are hitting the same source website?
Some “mashups” have ability to support some business logic (eg: scripting languages)… are these considered mashups?
Can anything that can be done via emml (?) also be done graphically, or does emml have capability that the gui does not?
How is the challenge of data sanitation and denormalization addressed in JackBe?
Is there a programmatic interface for adding services and mashups, or is everything done through the GUI? Meaning, can I write a script to add my services and mashups? How is the configuration saved? How do I back it up?
Beyond presentation (mashlets), how mashups can lead to leaner process automation by mixing info from different types of applications?
I don't see any difference, so far, between SOA and mashups. Many SOA vendors also provide Portals to work with SOA services. (and business users who know the data are responsible for their services).
Hi, Presently I make use of Mashup Studio(Eclipse Plugin) and write my EMML scripts. Later I publish these scripts as Mashups that shows up in PRESTO Services/WIRES as Mashup. Assume that some time in future when our application goes LIVE(to production) and while working with PRESTO SERVICES if someone accidentally remove the service (mashup), then do we need to use the same methodology of publishing the Mashup from Eclipse or are there any alternate way of publishing mashups to Presto? Note: The other possibility could be to do migration of data from say staging repository to production repository of Jackbe. Regards, Guruprasad
Can I hide a published Mashup in Wires? I've created a Mashup using EMML script. I want this mashup to be used for some data processing. I don't want this Mashup to get displayed in WIRES. But unless I publish the Mashup I'll not be able to invoke it. So is there a way for publishing the Mashup but still making it not to appear in the WIRES?
I'm trying to create a Mashup using EMML. How can I define inputs to my Mashup such that it can take multiple inputs something similar to MERGE operations in JackBe actions. In the JackBe Wires I should be able to feed mulitple inputs to my Mashup.