IBM WEBSPHERE SMASH

                          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.

Using WebSphere sMash, you can:

• Quickly build and deliver situational applications that meet your clients’
  specific needs
  
•  Leverage REST technology to expose and consume web services and take
  advantage of your clients’ exiting SOA investments
  
• Provide a cost effective solution that complies with key IT operations
  guidelines around manageability, scalability, and security
  
• Assemble server-side logic and build user interfaces for your clients using
  visual tooling

WebSphere sMash provides an agile development environment that supports today's hottest dynamic scripting languages, enables rapid aggregation of disparate services and feeds, and employs RESTful approaches to unleash critical information and services found within a company. This powerful combination  allows companies to use technology to extend the reach of SOA, better align with business goals and uncover new opportunities to boost productivity or reach new markets. It also provides the environment for unlocking, transforming and mixing
enterprise, departmental, Web and personal systems while enforcingenterpriseclass security and governance. IBM Mashup Center stores information feeds from enterprise sources in RSS, ATOM or XML formats to maximize the types of information that can be unlocked and remixed. With the ability to merge, transform, filter, annotate or publish information in new formats, the software helps create a single view of disparate sets of information in minutes. sMash addresses a key part of the browser mashup security issue by keeping code and data from each of the sources separated, while allowing controlled sharing of the data through a secure communication channel. Performance evaluations have shown that SMash can be used in common enterprise mashup applications.

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