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 I'd like to discuss the Assemble facet of Project Zero which supports service consumers assembling solutions from a catalogue of building bocks.

A key achievement of the Web 2.0 movement is to introduce concepts (like REST, AJAX, RSS/ATOM) that make it significantly simpler for people to consume the enormous set of services & information that's out there… to access and manipulate existing information & services and to collaborate with others to achieve their goals… empowering service consumers to build the applications they need.

This is the focus of Zero Assemble – offering libraries and tools for service consumers in support of rapid application assembly… facilitating access to services & feeds and managing configuration of interactions with those endpoints; providing a simple flow-based model for assembling server-side service mashups from existing services & feeds; and offering an extensible set of configurable building blocks & templates in support of those tasks.

We've put together a minimalist set of Assemble capabilities in the initial Zero drivers… in the spirit of Einstein's maxim "everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler” we need your help to find out whether what we offer is simple enough… or too simplistic…

Please tell us what you think!