Funded by MITyC, within the framework of The National Plan for Scientific Research, Development and Technological Innovation 2008-2011. Funded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF).
The EzWeb project is based on the development of key technologies to be employed in building the front end layer of a new generation SOA architecture that supports the following criteria:
End-users must feel fully empowered,They must be able to self-serve from a wide range of available resources, providing access to content and application services, in order to set up their own personalized operating environment in a highly flexible and dynamic way ("Do it yourself", IKEA philosophy).
Active participation of users has to be enabled, allowing them to create resources as well as share and exchange both knowledge and resources with others and learn together, thus accelerating the way innovations and improvements in productivity are incorporated.
Interaction must be adapted and relevant to context, giving the term "context" the widest possible meaning, in a way that comprises both user context (knowledge, profile, preferences, language, information about social networks the user belongs to, etc.) and delivery context (static and dynamic characteristics of the device used for access, geographical and time location, connection bandwidth, etc.). Dynamic context variability and user mobility must also be taken into consideration.
EzWeb plans to evolve in the following activity guidelines:
Advanced Operative Environment Management
Resource Catalogue
Resource MarketPlace
Knowledge acquisition and exploitation
Advanced Integrated Development Environment (IDE)
To enjoy the benefits of EzWeb, you don't need to download and create an EzWeb site. You can register as user of the beta service based on EzWeb available at: http://ezweb.tid.es
El Marketplace de EzWeb ha incorporado un sistema de tarificación por grupos, esto es, la posibilidad de gestionar ofertas especiales de precios aplicables a los usuarios en base o no a su pertenencia a unas determinadas categorías, parametrizables por los administradores de la plataforma.
El entorno inicial funciona a través de las categorías de usuarios de la plataforma EzSteroids y es plenamente configurable desde el backend de administración, mientras que permanece totalmente transparente de cara al usuario, que lo único que advierte es la aplicación de un precio más ajustado.
También se han aplicado distintas mejoras en el sistema de tarificación que permiten fijar las tarifas de los gadgets de una forma más efectiva y amena.
Thanks to the new version of the EzWeb platform we are closer to realize our vision of the future of Front-end. We are actively sharing this vision in forums such as the Service Front-end Open Alliance, the NESSI technology platform and in the Cloud Technologies research area.
From EzWeb we understand that mashups must be one of the base services offered within the Cloud. Understanding this in two ways: first, the Cloud must offer the ability of compose application mashups from basic building blocks (Gadgets). Moreover created mashups, offering innovative functionality, should be exposed like new services in the Cloud. These two concepts, included in what we call MaaS (Mashup as a service ) are an important innovation catalyst in social and collaborative environments like the future Cloud will be. Therefore we consider essential the deployment and integration of EzWeb within a Cloud infrastructure. To reach this goal EzWeb is in close relationship with the Nuba project.
To achieve these objectives EzWeb presents some features that go beyond the mere spatial rearrangement and functional combination of applications (Gadgets). Current version of EzWeb provides several advanced functionalities enabling our vision. In this way a mashup created by any user can become an autonomous web application able to be deployed, embedded or shared among users, both using the internal EzWeb features (through its catalog) or thanks to any other external distribution infrastructure.
EzWeb has also enhanced its facet as web desktop. Now the mashups can also be seen as a classic desktop application where gadgets coexist with their iconified versions. These icons are expanded, manually or automatically, depending on the needs of the user-defined process. In this way we generate a closer user experience to desktops than the one offered by current operative systems.
These features coexist with traditional functions of EzWeb like: Gadgets personalization, multiple tabs and work spaces management, gadget load and application optimization, wizards for creating new gadgets, dynamic establishment of data flows (wiring), advanced user management and policies, catalog/marketplace providing advanced capabilities to allow users (prosumers) to share and create new gadgets and content … making EzWeb the most advanced current open source application mashup of the moment.
Today a new deployment of the EzWeb platform will be available at http://ezweb.tid.es. In this version you will find new and interesting functionalities related to workspace management, improving the web desktop aspect of EzWeb. You will also discover new options for the inclusion of gadgets into your workspace.
As you can see we continue working in the placement of EzWeb as one of the best web desktop options for accessing to Cloud Services. And of course as the more advanced mashup solution that materializes the Mashup as a Service concept in the Future of Cloud.
In the server side, gadget developers will be glad to know that functional and security improvements in the cross-domain server have been implemented.
We wil try disturb as little as possible during the installation process.
Do you want to share the workspace you are so proud of with everyone? EzWeb has a brand new functionality: public workspaces. You can compose your workspace and share its public URL. You can even embed it in any of your websites!.
A new “Videos” section is available inside the “Project Information” subsection. In this section you could find several demos showing the main EzWeb functionality.
