Ajax & Soap

AJAX and LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL and Perl/PHP/Python)

Technology standards like RSS/Atom, AJAX and SOAP are transforming the creation, distribution, and aggregation of content. Enterprises are looking to Enterprise Information Integration (EII) solutions to federate queries across silos of structured and unstructured data, and bring business intelligence real-time to decision-makers.

Web services, Microsoft .NET interfaces, J2EE interfaces are underpinning SOA "Service Orientated Architecture" solutions that allow applications to access data transparently without knowing its location or format.

Do you have the right tools to make search an important and vital part of your application, in this space?

Grapeshot Innovates With Ajax

At Grapeshot we have used AJAX to do for search, what Google Maps did for finding your way about town.

This is the Dooodle Joystick which controls the look and feel of the Dooodle search results. Go and have a go Dooodle session yourself. Now!

As you move the joystick, the results recluster in real time.

Soap with IBM Websphere

IBM is deploying Grapeshot as an "intelligent search" layer within the IBM Audience Portal product for media and publishers, using SOAP interfaces between Grapeshot and the WebSphere product family.

SOA - Service Orientated Architecture

Grapeshot is SOA enabled with IBM to deliver rapid implementation of advanced search architecture within your web services environment.

SOA is a standards-based approach to managing services made available by different software packages for reuse and reconfiguration.

• Fast deployment using web services
• Common standards for software to interoperate and exchange data
• Break out from silo-effect of different vendors with unique interfaces
• Stop investing in IT infrastructure that is expensive or time-consuming to change

Grapeshot engineered an SOA search web service for IBM's Websphere Portal application in 2005 - dramatically reducing the time to market to implement advanced search features inside a component based architecture. Global Head of Publishing, David Lane, at IBM UK said "Grapeshot really unlocks what Portal Server should have been doing" in terms of personal profiling and personalising the content experience.

Most people are deploying SOA around Web Services and the Portal Framework.