Mashup FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions - Presto Mashables

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?
Can I use unstructured data and a type of input for a mashup?
What type of effort does [mashup creation] usually entail?
What if the Excel sheets are in some low config desktop.. How do you fetch it?
How do you address data quality used in mashups? End users can misinterpret results.
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?
Can I use unstructured data and a type of input for a mashup?
What type of effort does mashup creation usually entail?
Is the data that is output by this system, universal? Can I take the data and make more mashups on a variety of systems or does it only work with your software?
Is there a specific IDE for the "development"?
Can you only pull live data in via XLS files, or from SOA, JDBC, API, etc. and if you can, how?
So, the mashups are a way for an individual in an enterprise to get what he wants from IT which he couldn't get because building an app for a single instance isn't cost effective for IT. But then you say that once the mashlet is built, thousands of users can use it. Sound like circular justification.
Are mashlets output as JSF Components?
I see that this has a direct approach to "temporary" dashboarding... but I feel this is doing more than just populating dashboards...am I right on that assumption?
Can I display a mashlet within a Silverlight control/application?
Can services be prepared from pretty much any data source including fixed length text files?
Can we do mashups on process?
What is the deliverable to the client? A mashup? Mashlet? I'm trying to understand how the application dev process changes in a mashup architecture.
Is a Visual Studio plugin also available?
What kind of things NEED to be done via API instead of visually?
Are you using WebDAV or servlets to publish EMML?
How the Mashups are being handled for different devices display capacity (PC, iPhone, Blackberries, etc)?
Can you comment on the differences between mashups as the means to aggregate data using standard to present in different consumption channels vs. using mashups to invoke services to perform functions/business processes that execute a backend application task (if that's even relevant for mashups)?
Does this technology integrate with any of the commercial ESB vendors (TIBCO, IBM, Oracle Fusion etc)..?
How would you compare or link J2EE patterns with Mashup patterns?
Can we implement or use these mashups with any middleware products like JCAPS, TIBCO, BIZTALK, WEBMETHODS etc?
It seems mashups won't grow to its potential until tools are available for the business users to easily create the data combinations they value. What are the best business-user tools available today?
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?
Can I display a mashlet within a Silverlight control/application?
Is Mashup driven by AJAX?
Mostly Mashups talk about UI level integration, how do they provide "data-level" integration b/w disparate systems by resolving conflicts?
Is it required to compile the mashup separately for its deployment into .Net and J2EE containers? Does it require separate code base?
Excel "apps" that is scalable, maintainable and secure could be built with MOSS (Microsoft Office SharePoint Server) deployment and give the power to end user. Why should we embrace Mashup?
What’s the difference btw Enterprise Mashups and an ETL solution?
How does it integrate with SAP ERP and SAP BI? Do we need additional connectors to talk to SAP?
Our firm is not going to go out and scrape info from the web. How about an example where internally we can mashup mainframe data, existing java webservice calls via SOAP, and data from an excel spreadsheet! Is this possible with the mashup platform?
Mashups seem well suited for information centric / lightweight BI applications, but how do these solutions evolve over time or provide enterprise capabilities for inclusion of more complex business logic, or support for business processes, rules, event processing, etc.
I don't understand the BI, we know that excel is THE solution used by the business users to do their job. I have difficulties to see mashups helping in any way?!?
How does a mashup compare to business intelligence?
Will the future of BI be mashups rather than the traditional data warehouse, marts, and access tools like cognos.
Can mashups access historical data to show trending, or do aggregations for large volumes of data?
Can you only pull live data in via XLS files, or from SOA, JDBC, API, etc. and if you can, how?
After creating a Mashup (which is a service in itself), can it be deployed in a SOA environment e.g. publishing it in UDDI etc?
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).
What level of SOA maturity is required as a prerequisite for effective enterprise mashups?
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
Is there a sample mashup/mashlet included with the Presto Developer Edition 2.5?