Enterprise mashups are like portals .. then again they are not. The mashup so closely associated with the Ajax movement is getting a new look in, what is for some, a new role. That is as a way to shine-up established legacy applications.
SearchSOA.com editor Jack Vaughan recently spoke with John Crupi on these and other topics. Crupi is the CTO of JackBe Corp., and he has seen the evolution of the mashup pattern over several years. In this podcast, he discusses security and other traits that make a mashup an enterprise mashup.
The enterprise mashup is a new category, admits, Crupi, and on one level it represents another means of coping with the age old problem of siloed systems. SOA, he notes, is highly influential in the emerging enterprise mashup firmament, where new a faster means of spinning out data are under more and more scrutiny.
