by Peter Laird
05/30/2007
Editor's Note: This tutorial is a companion to Dev2Dev TechDays 2007, which has a theme this year of Mashup the Enterprise. The seminar covers how mashups can be used effectively within the enterprise, and offers more details on the technologies presented in this tutorial. The seminar is being offered worldwide, so check out the TechDays Web site to see when the seminar is coming to a city near you.
Abstract
A new era of Web development is in full swing, and it is called Web 2.0. This has ushered in a new set of prototypical Web applications, including blogs, wikis, and mashups. Mashups are the focus of this tutorial, and you will see how a sample mashup can be built using a common set of technologies. This set includes JavaScript, Ajax, REST, JSON, and the Google Maps API. As a Web developer, it is important to understand how these tools fit together. In this tutorial I'll use these tools to easily build what is the ultimate Hello World mashup: a Google Maps mashup.