The Open Mashup Alliance (OMA) is a non-profit

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that promotes the adoption of mashup solutions in the enterprise through the evolution of enterprise mashup standards like

EMML EMML, or Enterprise Mashup Markup Language, is an XML markup language for creating enterprise mashups, which are software applications that consume and mash data from variety of sources, often performing logical or mathematical operations as well ...

. The initial members of the OMA include some large technology companies such as

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, and

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and some major technology users such as

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and

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. According to Dion Hinchcliffe, "Ultimately, the OMA creates a standardized approach to enterprise mashups that creates an open and vibrant market for competing runtimes, mashups, and an array of important aftermarket services such as development/testing tools, management and administration appliances,

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, education, professional services, and so on."

Specification development

The initial focus of the OMA is developing

, which is a declarative mashup

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(DSL) aimed at creating enterprise mashups. The EMML language provides a comprehensive set of high-level mashup-domain vocabulary to consume and mash a variety of web data sources. EMML provides a uniform syntax to invoke heterogeneous service styles:

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, and POJO. EMML also provides the ability to mix and match diverse data formats:

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, JavaObjects, and primitive types. The OMA website provides the EMML specification, the EMML schema, a reference runtime implementation capable of running EMML scripts, sample EMML mashup scripts, and technical documentation. The OMA is developing EMML under a

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Attribution No Derivatives license. The eventual objective of the OMA is to submit the EMML specification and any other OMA specifications to a recognized industry standards body.

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External links

Open Mashup Alliance Interest Group
Technology trade associations Standards organizations Web services Web development Mashup (web application hybrid) Web development software Service-oriented (business computing) Rich web applications

Specification development

See also

References

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