Project Zero Blog

This video demonstrates the use of the graphical tooling to build the first Feed sample provided in the zero assemble flow example project. Once assembled, the flow’s behavior will be to aggregate and sort two RSS feeds into a single new feed. The two feeds in question are taken from the BBC and Yahoo news [...]

 
We’re working on a more systematic analysis of scenarios and target user for Zero and will post results on this site soon… here are a few things that I found particularly interesting – as usual with a focus on the Assemble aspects of Zero…
We started by identifying the user types involved in creating the [...]

This video shows the construction and operation of the Assemble Store demo. Store demo features a workflow requiring coordination between four different actors who initiate, approve, design and receive goods deliveries. This video is in three parts. Firstly, we’ll extract the Store Demo from the Flow example project and customize it for our local environment. [...]

We just completed an interesting piece of work on integrating Zero Assemble flows with client-side mashups created with the QEDWiki framework. Illustrating a design pattern for Web 2.0 applications where mashup assemblers segment the overall applications into a client- and a server-side mashup…
QEDWiki allows mashup assemblers to create a personalized, mashup by assembling a [...]

 
I talked about Assemble flows and interaction configuration in previous posts… fundamental in both cases is that users have a rich library of flow or mediation building blocks they can choose from… flow assembly is not very interesting if users have to implement each activity in the flow – in that case it becomes [...]

 
We created a couple of videos showing Assemble flows in action. Please take a look at the demos… there’s one showing how to do feed aggregation with a flow and another one that illustrates use of flows to coordinate collaboration between a set of particpants… more under construction…
- Marc-Thomas

Another fundamental aspect of Zero Assemble is the capability to configure interactions of Zero applications with services & feeds using the Assemble integration fabric.
This is to support scenarios where Zero developers wish to use a service or resource that is not quite what they want it to be… they might want to POST a [...]

 
I want to use this and a few more posts to feature key concepts of the Zero Assemble model… this one is about flow-based assembly of RESTful services & feeds into server-side mashups…
The basic idea is to allow users to quickly string together a set of existing building blocks (e.g., a few information feeds, [...]

Welcome to the Zero Assemble blog…. the Assemble component of Project Zero supports service consumers in their quest to rapidly assemble existing services & information feeds into the applications they need…
Project Zero is an effort to establish a platform for Web-oriented applications building on concepts developed in the Web 2.0 community… in this blog [...]