Open Mashup Alliance

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Open Mashup Alliance
AbbreviationOMA
FormationSeptember 2009;14 years ago (2009-09)
TypeStandards Development Organization
Region served
Worldwide
Membership
Mashup Product Vendors, Mashup technology users

The Open Mashup Alliance (OMA) is a non-profit consortium that promotes the adoption of mashup solutions in the enterprise through the evolution of enterprise mashup standards like EMML. [1] The initial members of the OMA include some large technology companies such as Adobe Systems, Hewlett-Packard, and Intel and some major technology users such as Bank of America and Capgemini.

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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, governance frameworks, education, professional services, and so on." [2]

Specification development

The initial focus of the OMA is developing EMML, which is a declarative mashup domain-specific language (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: REST, WSDL, RSS/ATOM, RDBMS, and POJO. EMML also provides the ability to mix and match diverse data formats: XML, JSON, JDBC, JavaObjects, and primitive types.

The OMA website provides the EMML specification, [3] the EMML schema, [4] a reference runtime implementation capable of running EMML scripts, [3] sample EMML mashup scripts, [3] and technical documentation. [5]

The OMA is developing EMML under a Creative Commons Attribution No Derivatives license. [6]

The eventual objective of the OMA is to submit the EMML specification and any other OMA specifications to a recognized industry standards body. [7] [8]

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References

  1. ↑ "Open Mashup Alliance FAQs". Archived from the original on 2009-09-27. Retrieved 2009-09-24.
  2. ↑ "Creating a unified model for enterprise mashups". Archived from the original on September 25, 2009.
  3. 1 2 3 "OMA Download Agreement Page". Archived from the original on 2018-10-19. Retrieved 2009-10-04.
  4. ↑ "EMML Schema". Archived from the original on 2009-12-31. Retrieved 2009-10-04.
  5. ↑ "EMML Technical Documentation". Archived from the original on 2009-09-27. Retrieved 2009-09-24.
  6. ↑ "OMA FAQs". Archived from the original on 2009-09-28. Retrieved 2009-10-04.
  7. ↑ "Enterprise mashup proponents start organizing". Archived from the original on October 3, 2009.
  8. ↑ "John Kavanagh". johnkavanagh.co.uk.
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