There is a trend that is part of this Web 2.0 wave. There are quite a few number of companies that are providing ways for users to create their own applications by aggregation. Many of these new offering are enabled by AJAX and RIA style apps.
New players are starting to appear in the aggregator and manipulator space. Two players in this space are Pipes and Popfly. These both share the same concept of allowing anyone to mashup online data. Online communities along with the service make it easy to collaborate, rate and test components created by other community members. I will not be long until we see more players in the widget creation space. This will provide an ecosystem that will provide more options to integrate into online applications.
On the Enterprise side we can not ignore what is happening with the AppExchange which provides for a platform to find, test and install On-Demand applications pre-integrated into Salesforce.
Is this the new way to build applications? You bet! The trend can not be ignored. Software as a Service is and will continue to be seriously considered by the enterprise and composite applications have been build in the enterprise for a few years now.
Many of the new ways to bulid and share applications guide the users and developers to build discrete services that can be plugged into a larger service or can be used to create a composite application.
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