An Enterprise Mashup Integration Service Framework for Clouds

With an advent of gaining popularity in cloud computing, there is a huge demand in ad-hoc services by the end users. These ad-hoc services cannot fully be provided by a service provider; hence Cloud mashup is a solution for this requirement. Cloud mashup is technology where end users can integrate different services of cloud service providers and create their own customized ad-hoc services. This paper proposes an efficient enterprise cloud mashup framework which supports dynamic composition of services to create a new service to the end users. The proposed framework is composed of an adapter, widgets, widget library and a mashup constructor module. Even a non technical end user can easily generate their own customized service on a cloud platform. Experiments reveal that the proposed framework is an efficient enterprise with cloud mashup service integration framework. DOI: 10.4018/ijcac.2012040103 32 International Journal of Cloud Applications and Computing, 2(2), 31-40, April-June 2012 Copyright © 2012, IGI Global. Copying or distributing in print or electronic forms without written permission of IGI Global is prohibited. al., 2009). There is a need for new approach to overcome these issues and even non technical end users can integrate flexibly different services to generate a highly customizable service (Wulf & Jarke, 2004). Mashups, a new generation of Web based applications, seem to adequately fulfill the individual and heterogeneous requirements of end users and to foster End User Development (EUD) (Hoyer & Stanoevska-Slabeva, 2009). The Mashup and the Cloud Computing worlds are strictly related because very often the services combined to create new Mashups follow the SaaS model and, more in general, rely on Cloud systems (Stecca & Maresca, 2010). The use of Web 2.0 technologies with the SaaS principle is imposing widgets as a new means to exploit and integrate information over the web. The idea is that disparate data are accessed remotely through service-based interfaces and can then be freely re-combined by the user on his browser. These assemblies, like iGoogle, are often called mashups and let users decide the information of interest and how to organize it on the browser with no particular programming skills and no significant effort (Matteo Albinola et al., 2009). This paper focuses in integrating this new style of web technology with emerging cloud based services. This paper proposes an efficient mashup service integration framework for cloud environments, which helps end users to generate highly ad-hoc customized services. Proposed framework offers: adaptertranslates data from the source format to the required target format, widgetcreates mashup process, widget librarya widget store, mashup constructorwiring of different widgets and executing constructed mashup service in achieving customized service. The rest of the paper is organized as follows: the upcoming section discusses on Related work of the proposed topic, followed by section which proposes the architecture on cloud based mashup service integration framework, next we discuss elaborately on different components of proposed framework, afterward a section defines an sequence diagram explaining the sequence of operations performed to provide services to clients, the next section discusses an case study on proposed enterprise cloud mashup architecture and which leads into a section that presents various experiments in analyzing the performance of proposed model, finally, the last section concludes the topic by summarizing the features of the proposed framework and the scope for future work.