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The rapid growth of social networking sites and web communities have motivated web sites to expose their APIs to external developers who create mashups by assembling existing functionalities. Current APIs, however, aim toward developers with programming expertise; they are not directly usable by wider class of users who do not have programming background, but would nevertheless like to build their own mashups. To address this need, we propose a spreadsheet-based Web mashups development framework, which enables users to develop mashups in the popular spreadsheet environment.

Mashup is a new application development approach that allows users aggregate
multiple services, each serving its own purpose, to create a service that serves a
new purpose. Even if the Mashup approach opens new and broader opportuni-
ties for data/service consumers, the development process still requires the users
to know, not only understand how to write code using languages, but also how
to use the different Web APIs from all services.
The objective of this study is to analyze the richnesses and weaknesses of

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 broader opportunities for data/service consumers, the
development process still requires the users to know not only
how to write code using programming languages, but also
how to use the different Web APIs from different services.
In order to solve this problem, there is increasing effort put
into developing tools which are designed to support users
with little programming knowledge in Mashup applications

Service Oriented Architecture: Overview and Directions
Boualem Benatallah and Hamid R. Motahari Nezhad
School of Computer Science and Engineering The University of New South Wales Australia {boualem,hamidm}@cse.unsw.edu.au

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Introduction