The WSO2 Mashup Server is an

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mashup platform that hosts

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based

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s. It is based on

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and other open source projects, and provides

authors the ability to consume, compose and emit web services, feeds, scraped web pages, email, and instant messages. The source code is freely available under the open source Apache License. It provides a runtime platform for developing and deploying mashups. It can be downloaded and deployed locally or within an organization. The WSO2 Mashup Server is '' web services centric'' in that each mashup exposes a new web service, which can be consumed by other mashups, web service clients, or Ajax style web pages. The securability of web services make them an attractive technology within organizations deploying a

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(SOA) and for business mashups. On December 8, 2012, the WSO2 Mashup Server was retired since its remaining functionality, JavaScript web service hosting, was folded into the WSO2 Application Server. WSO2 Application Server went on to eventually become a set of extensions to

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and JavaScript hosting was provided by Jaggery based upon

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JavaScript as a mashup composition language

Mashups are composed using server side JavaScript in the WSO2 Mashup Server. A set of language extensions along with E4X provides domain specific features such as; * Calling other SOAP/REST web services, * RSS/Atom feed reading and writing, *

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, *

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based publishing, * Periodic task scheduling, * E-mailing and * IM

A Hello World

function hello()

Calling a SOAP web service

function invokeGetVersionService()

Working with feeds

// Creating an RSS 2.0 feed and writing it to file. function createRssFeed()

Web scraping

function webScrape() The syntax is identical to another open source web scraping tool called

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Working with APP

function persistAuthenticatedAppFeed()

Periodic task scheduling

// Scheduling a function to be executed every 2 seconds var uuid = system.setInterval('myJavaScriptFunction("parameterValue")', 2000); // Stopping the above scheduled task system.clearInterval(uuid);

Sending an e-mail

function sendEmail()

References

External links

* {{Official website Free software programmed in Java (programming language) Cross-platform free software Web scraping