Overview
A redesign of the Plants by WebSphere application that borrows the plants theme to show how to use additional features of the Feature Pack for Web 2.0. One of the features is highlighted below:
- Mash-ups – Perhaps one of the most powerful applications of the Web is programmable Web, a Web Oriented Architecture where callable services are available all over the Internet. An application can pick and choose appropriate services to augment the core functions. For example, this application invokes services from Wikipedia to provide users with detailed plant descriptions. The data is cached in local database with configurable expiration. This prevents accessing Wikipedia repeatedly for the same information.