Author: keith
Date: Sun Jan 27 04:55:03 2008
New Revision: 13003
Log:
Updating features and known issues
Modified:
trunk/mashup/java/xdocs/introduction.html
Modified: trunk/mashup/java/xdocs/introduction.html
==============================================================================
--- trunk/mashup/java/xdocs/introduction.html (original)
+++ trunk/mashup/java/xdocs/introduction.html Sun Jan 27 04:55:03 2008
@@ -1,26 +1,40 @@
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
- <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="">
- <title>Welcome to the WSO2 Mashup Server</title>
- <link href="styles.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="all">
+
+ <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="">
+
+
+
+
+ <title>Welcome to the WSO2 Mashup Server</title>
+ <link href="styles.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="all">
</head>
+
<body>
+
<div id="main-content">
<h1>Welcome to the WSO2 Mashup Server v1.0</h1>
+
Welcome to the WSO2 Mashup Server documentation! This document provides
an
introduction to the concepts and use of the Mashup Server, and will
help you
-get started using Web service technology. <br/>
+get started using Web service technology. <br>
+
You will find more useful information in from the following resources:
<ul>
+
<li><a href="http://mooshup.com";>mooshup.com</a></li>
+
<li><a href="http://wso2.org/forum/226"; target="blank">Community
Forum</a></li>
+
</ul>
+
<h2>Web Services and Mashups</h2>
+
Mashups are becoming an increasingly important part of the information
age. They allow you to tame the raging information flow and put it to
work for
@@ -31,8 +45,10 @@
and
shape the results, and interact with that information. Getting
information
-in the way you want it is the basis of XML-based Web Services. <br/>
-<br/>
+in the way you want it is the basis of XML-based Web Services. <br>
+
+<br>
+
XML is a language for exchanging information. It extends the valuable
characteristics of HTML, which is limited to the domain of document
publishing, to other fields. It allows one to use vocabularies specific
@@ -45,8 +61,10 @@
the presentation of the information can be separated from the content
of the
information - the first step in making that information reusable by the
-consumer. <br/>
-<br/>
+consumer. <br>
+
+<br>
+
But if anyone can make up their own language, isn't that the Tower of
Babel
all over again? Indeed, to communicate effectively, two computers must
@@ -67,8 +85,10 @@
is a
need for some human intervention to take disparate vocabularies and
combine
-them into a new information stream. <br/>
-<br/>
+them into a new information stream. <br>
+
+<br>
+
Merging, or mashing-up data, thus is a process of acquiring XML
(directly
from the producers, or in some other legacy form that can be converted
@@ -83,8 +103,10 @@
this
model - that the central model for customizing information to a
particular
-user's needs, is one of consuming, processing, and publishing XML. <br/>
-<br/>
+user's needs, is one of consuming, processing, and publishing XML. <br>
+
+<br>
+
How does one acquire XML? Web Services are a set of technologies that
helps
get XML from one place to another, providing protocols for describing
@@ -97,8 +119,10 @@
take
care of this for you, allowing you to operate at the level of the XML
content
-itself as much as possible. <br/>
-<br/>
+itself as much as possible. <br>
+
+<br>
+
Mashup products and frameworks all have several pieces in common. They
provide ways to acquire data, they provide a central abstraction and
tools
@@ -112,58 +136,97 @@
primary
way to re-publish the new information stream, with bridges to HTML,
RSS, and
-other output mechanisms. <br/>
-<br/>
+other output mechanisms. <br>
+
+<br>
+
In this User Guide, you will learn how to acquire, manipulate and
publish XML
data through Web Services, and how to build upon that foundation to
create
-sophisticated distributed applications simply and rapidly. <br/>
-<br/>
+sophisticated distributed applications simply and rapidly. <br>
+
+<br>
+
<h2>WSO2 Mashup Server 1.0 Release</h2>
-The first release of the WSO2 Mashup Server focused
+<br>
+The 1.0 release of the WSO2 Mashup Server focuses
on the fundamental technology needed to author and consume services
with
-JavaScript. This release adds features to the fundamental platform. We
+JavaScript. It also adds sevaral features to the fundamental platform. We
have added several key features which we hope will enhance your
experiance in authorizing services. However, just hosting JavaScript
services is only
-part of a true mashup platform.<br/>
-<br/>
+part of a true mashup platform.<br>
+
+<br>
+
<h3>New features in the 1.0 relese:</h3>
+
<ul>
- <li>Improved ATOM/RSS and APP support</li>
- <li>Support for Long Running Service scheduling with
- system.setInterval()
+
+ <li>Email Host object</li>
+
+ <li>IM Host object
</li>
- <li>Improved databinding and type annotation support</li>
+
+ <li>Revamped management interface based on WSO2 Registry</li>
+ <ul>
+ <li>Web 2.0 look and feel</li>
+ <li>Improved multi-user and community support</li>
+ <li>Improved user management support for administrators</li>
+ <li>Email-verified self-registration</li>
+ <li>Comments, tags, ratings</li>
+ <li>Sophisticated search capabilities to locate and group mashups</li>
+ <li>RSS and Atom feeds for any query</li>
+ <li>Recent activity queries</li>
+ </ul>
+ <li>Improved tooling</li>
+ <ul>
+ <li>Scraper assistant</li>
+ <li>JavaScript Stub Genarator</li>
+ </ul>
+ <li>Improved REST support via httpMethod and httpLocation
annotations </li>
+ <li>Infocard login support</li>
+ <li>Improved sharing and downloading of mashups based on user accounts</li>
+ <li>Special _private folder to store private data for each mashup</li>
+ <li>Windows installer and management tray icon.</li>
+
</ul>
-<h3>Still to come are items like these:<br/>
+
+<h3>Still to come are items like these:<br>
+
</h3>
+
<ul>
- <li>Improved support, improving simple tooling, for screen
- scraping of HTML and other formats.
+
+ <li>Improved tooling support.
</li>
+
<li>An expanded toolkit of generic building-block services.</li>
- <li>Improved ability to share mashups, including a community
- site and live hosting.
- </li>
+
+
<li>Ability to use custom XML Schema data types and WSDLs.</li>
- <li>Ability to generate stubs to consume services not hosted on
- a WSO2 Mashup server.
- </li>
+
+
<li>Lots more cool stuff.</li>
+
</ul>
+
<h3><span style="font-weight: normal;">Please refer
-the </span><a style="font-weight: normal;"
-
href="http://wso2.org/project/mashup/1.0/release_note.html";>Mashup
+the </span><a style="font-weight: normal;"
href="http://wso2.org/project/mashup/1.0/release_note.html";>Mashup
Server v1.0 Release Note</a><span style="font-weight: normal;">
-for more details.</span><br/>
+for more details.</span><br>
+
</h3>
-<br/>
+
+<br>
+
</div>
-<p>© WSO2 Inc.</p>
+
+<p>� WSO2 Inc.</p>
+
</body>
-</html>
\ No newline at end of file
+</html>
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