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IBM releases secure mashup tool
For mash get Smash
Shaun Nichols in California, vnunet.com14 Mar 2008
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IBM has unveiled a tool designed to create mashup applications in a secure
environment.
The Smash development tool allows users to pull pieces of code and data from
various sources and place them together in a single mashup application.
Mashups allow non-technical users to create customised applications without
extensive coding knowledge.
Big Blue hopes to bring the mashup concept into the enterprise market by
patching one of the main worries: security.
Smash keeps each of the mashup components separate, allowing them to 'talk'
while not allowing any of the potentially malicious outside code to access the
other components.
"Web 2.0 is fundamentally about empowering people, and has created a societal
shift in the way we organise, access and use information," said Rod Smith, IBM
fellow and vice president.
"Security concerns cannot be a complete inhibitor or clients lose out on the
immense benefit mashups bring.
"You would not buy a car and then decide later to have the seatbelts or
airbags installed, so as an industry we have learned how to build security into
business operations from the ground up instead of tacking it on afterwards."
Smash will not be exclusive to IBM. The company plans to contribute the code
to OpenAjax, an open source development group dedicated to advancing the use of
Ajax for web-based applications.
IBM plans to demonstrate Smash next month at the International World Wide Web
conference in Beijing.
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