Collaborative mashup development in Enterprise 2.0

Abstract. Modern organizations support and promote internal collaboration to improve performances of their processes. In this paper, we focus on collabora-tion in software development processes where the process activities are simpli-fied by discovering and exploiting specific knowledge available inside the or-ganization. Specifically, we consider the mashup application development. Ma-shup has been recently introduced as a development approach for situational fast-to-implement Web-oriented applications. A mashup integrates software components, called Web APIs that can provide access to complex functionali-ties and rich data sources. Collaboration can simplify and make more effective the mashup development process, in terms of time and quality, by exploiting the knowledge of the developers operating inside the organization. To this aim, we propose a model as part of the Enterprise 2.0 paradigm that has been recently introduced as specialization of the Web 2.0 concepts and technologies to the en-terprise. In the discussed model, a mashup developer is supported in searching for assistance from developers owning specific knowledge, according to typical collaboration patterns.