Web 2.0 for AtGentive

A Brief Introduction to Web 2.0

Ye DENGye.deng@polytechnique.edu

My Internship @ INSEAD

• How to connect to external components such as Del.icio.us, Skype, Flickr, blogger, by using the different APIs that are now available.

• The concept of rich client (Flash / Flex

2, Ajax, Integration Living Actors, etc...)

What is Web 2.0?

• Web 2.0 generally refers to a second generation of services available on the World Wide Web that lets people collaborate and share information online.

• New web-based communities

• Some social networking aspects

Web 1.0 => Web 2.0

• Rich Internet Applications (Flex, Ajax)

• Tags

• Webservice & APIs

• Mashups

• And more…

All about Web 2.0

Web service

• Web service is a software system designed to support interoperable machine-to-machine interaction over a network.

• Protocol (Http, Https, SMTP, FTP…; XML-RPC, SOAP and REST.)

• WSDL (Web Services Description Language) • XML: All data to be exchanged is formatted

with XML tags

API & Mashup

• Application programming interface

• The interface that a computer system, library or application provides in order to allow requests for service to be made of it by other computer programs, and/or to allow data to be exchanged between them.

• A mashup is a website or web application that seamlessly combines content from more than one source into an integrated experience.

UKspeedcamer

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How does UK speed camera work?

Google Maps

Speed camera

address data

Return map image

Request

Request

Request

Return addressVisualize address on the map

API

Http

API

Conclusion

flexible componentflexible component

PluggabilityPluggability

MashupMashupXMLXML

Web serviceWeb service

Questions?