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Publication Details Author(s): Florian Daniel, Stefano Soi, Fabio Casati Title: From Mashup Technologies to Universal Integration: Search Computing the Imperative Way Reference: Search Computing - Challenges and Directions, edited by Stefano Ceri and Marco Brambilla, LNCS, Volume 5950, June 2009, Springer, Pages 72-93. Abstract: Mashups, i.e., web applications that are developed by integrating data, application logic, and user interfaces sourced from the Web, represent one of the innovations that characterize Web 2.0. Novel content wrapping technologies, the availability of so-called web APIs (e.g., web services), and the increasing sophistication of mashup tools allow also the less skilled programmer (or even the average web user) to compose personal applications on the Web. In many cases, such applications also feature search capabilities, achieved by explicitly integrating search services, such as Google or Yahoo!, into the overall logic of the composite application. In this chapter, we first overview the state of the art in mashup development by looking at which technologies a mashup developer should master and which in-struments exist that facilitate the overall development process. Then we specifi-cally focus on our own mashup platform, mashArt, and discuss its approach to what we call universal integration, i.e., integration at the data, application, and user interface layer inside one and the same mashup environment. To better ex-plain the novel ideas of the platform and its value in the context of search com-puting, we discuss an example inspired by the idea of search computing. Download paper