Sandmash: An approach for mashups techniques on smartphones

Abstract

Supporting Mashup on mobile devices allows supporting advanced use cases and thus to accelerate the creation and combination of smart mobile applications. In this paper, we evaluate the three client-side Mashups proposals JS. JS, OMash and SMash on mobile devices. Our evaluation on mobile devices shows that the SMash proposal by IBM is reasonably suited for mobile mashups development as it requires less amount of effort from developers and at the same time it has cross-mobile-browser compatibility. In order to address the security, we integrated a sandbox functionality. We have modified the OpenAjax JavaScript library proposed in SMash and have added support of HTML5 (iframe) tag’s “sandbox” attribute to it. (iframe) “sandbox” attribute, mobile mashups developers can restrict the framed-content (which may not be trustworthy) in a low-privileged environment. We demonstrate our proposal on a mobile mashup application that integrates content from three different providers (i. e., News, Stock and Weather service).