Mashup Patterns: Designs and Examples for the Modern Enterprise

Chapter 2. Mashup Patterns Terminology

The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.—Arthur C. Clarke (1917–2008)

Introduction

In the previous chapter we examined the role of mashups within the modern enterprise. Before proceeding further, it’s important to address the terminology of mashup patterns more closely. This slight diversion is important for the layperson who may still be somewhat unfamiliar with the singular concepts of both mashups and patterns, but will benefit the technical reader as well.

Readers who have read other patterns books should at least skim through the following sections. The emerging mashup ecosystem is rife with innovations that require a break from convention in some ...