3. Conclusions and outlook

Mashup architecture employs the technologies and protocols made popular by the Web, placing it at the confluence of two movements that are simultaneously traversing enterprise computing. Seen from the angle of information systems urbanization, the mashup is an important instrument in the generalization of SOA architecture. Companies that have invested heavily, and sometimes over a long period of time, in breaking down their IT infrastructure into modular, reusable services, will see the mashup as an incentive for users to use and compose these services to build applications that are tactical, even opportunistic, but still too specific for IT departments to allocate resources to.

From the point of view of using the data now available to them, web users have long been accustomed to plucking information from right and left, and adding their own content production,...