Running your mashup pages and widgets outside of Mashup Center

Nicole Carrier  April 28 2009 12:15:53 PM

One of my favorite – and arguably one of the most powerful features - in Mashup Center is its ability to support syndication of information. Syndication can be both at the presentation layer and the data layer.

At the data layer, we can generate feeds (RSS + Atom) for a wide range of information sources. These feeds can then be easily consumed by any reader that understands the RSS or ATOM protocols.

At the presentation layer, we have a nice feature called embedding that will generate a bit of HTML script for a mashup page or widget. This script can then be pasted into any web page – which could be a wiki, blog, WebSphere Portal page, Content portlet, static HTML, Sharepoint Portal, and even into the Google Gadget editor. The net result is that Mashup Center can be used as a rapid application development environment for widgets or mashup pages. These pages/widgets can then be embedded into whatever web application you wish to run it in.

Want to see how this is done? I just finished a short video showing how to embed mashup pages and widgets. In this scenario, I embed both a widget and a page into Microsoft Sharepoint.

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