Mashup FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions - Presto APIs
- Can you only pull live data in via XLS files, or from SOA, JDBC, API, etc. and if you can, how?
- JSR-168 is nice, but it doesn't help me as an ASP.NET developer. Is there support for displaying mashlets in ASP.NET apps?
- Is there an example of the Presto/Silverlight API binding that you can point me to?
- I guess the Silverlight question is really: do you have an API that allows me to do that binding? Or do I need to do it myself at this point?
- What is the deliverable to the client? A mashup? Mashlet? I'm trying to understand how the application dev process changes in a mashup architecture.
- Is a Visual Studio plugin also available?
- What kind of things NEED to be done via API instead of visually?
- How the Mashups are being handled for different devices display capacity (PC, iPhone, Blackberries, etc)?
- Can widgets only be viewed on web browsers or is there support for programmatically accessing widget data from .NET or Java?
- In the examples on competitive analysis, were APIs used to get data from different sources or was data obtained via HTTP and then parsed? I'm guessing a lot of retail sites don't necessarily provide APIs to access their price data.
- Regarding ‘api enabler’...are you using the browser source or more of a screen scrap for creating an external website API?
- How do we deal with lack of service level agreements for APIs from external sources? What are the workarounds?
- What about how reliable an external resource can be if it's not under your control? What if Google suddenly changes their api or interface or eliminates it?
- How does this compare in construct and operation to the Portal/Portlet style of web page composition.
- Are the Presto services exposed to other systems such as OpenESB?
- Do you have connectors to sources such as OLAP cubes?
- How much does the use of mashups increase storage need and capacity? It is obviously inherently dependent on how many... and how long they hang around or are for re-use... but is the impact huge?
- Can you only pull live data in via XLS files, or from SOA, JDBC, API, etc. and if you can, how?
- Can anyone share a mashup using the Salesforce.com API?
