Mashup - how to begin..

Question

I have an application. I am looking to create a mashup script that can be shared to other sites to use my application. Had couple of queries..

API - What would be best.. using HTTP or some other webservice script - whats the best way to pass data to the api? which scripting would you recommend?

Thanks..

Answer 1

Found some useful information.. worth sharing http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/J2EE/mashup_2/

Answer 2

Best thing to do is look at other commonly "mashed" APIs. Google Maps, Flickr. Del.icio.us are all good examples.

Most of them offer multiple API formats. The most common ones are JSON, XML (and/or RSS), and plain-text (comma or tab separated values, usually). Since it's just a different way of displaying the data, it should just be a case of applying a different template, so isn't much work..

Since you mention Javascript, JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) would be the easiest to use..

Answer 3

Hi,

if u have no idea of building mashups earlier, i would suggest you to go with yahoo pipes.

den gradually you can look for programmableweb.com its a mecca for all mashup developers. u'll get a lots of APIs n web services from there.