Web Integration is leveraging the enormous success of the Web Browser to access services and information on the Web. The services can for example include lookup in news archives, searching cheap flights and ordering cinema tickets, even editing Wikipedia. Information can for example include search results from Google or content from any other online information source, even RSS feeds. Web Integration allows for fast integration of any Web browsable content, data, and applications into portals, wireless devices, content management systems, applications, databases, RSS feeds, REST or web services.
Web Integration is the engine behind most Mashup (web application hybrid) sites today. Some of them are using commercial Web Integration products, and others use technologies like Python, Perl, etc.
Types of Integration
- Integration at the presentation layer. This layer is the human user interface, either web-based or a platform-specific GUI or terminal interface. This layer allows user to collaborate with an application. Integration at the presentation layer lets have to access to a user interface of a remote application.
- Integration at the functional layer. This type of integration provides direct access to business logic of applications. It is attained by interaction between applications and API or by interaction with web services.
- Integration at the data layer. In this case we mean access to one or more databases used by a remote application
- Complex integration. Commerce solutions of web-integration as a rule include all three types of integration.
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What is MetaSeeker toolkit
MetaSeeker toolkit provides a series of tools which semantically describe data schemas of target Web pages, construct Data Schema Specification Files and Data and Clue Extraction Instruction Files, continuously extract information in bulk from the Web, produce and store Data Extraction Result Files with semantic meta data. All above activities are necessary for collecting contents during building up information services.
