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FAST aims at providing an innovative visual programming environment that will facilitate the development of next-generation composite user interfaces. It constitutes a novel approach to application composition and business process definition from a top-down user-centric perspective.For a quick overview of FAST, please refer to the project factsheet
FAST is a Small or Medium-scale Focused Research Collaborative Project (STREP) supported by the European Commission under its 7th Framework Programme (FP7). It is among the first batch of FP7 projects on Services and Software Architectures, Infrastructures and Engineering. FAST started on 1st March 2008 and will come to an end officially on 31th March 2011. It has a total funding of €3,5 M (overall budget €5,5 M)
The main objective of the project is to create a new a visual programming environment that will facilitate the development of complex front-end gadgets, involving execution of relatively complex business processes that rely on back-end semantic Web services. The approach adopted will be user-centric rather than program-centric: instead of first building programs that orchestrate available semantic Web services and then try to figure out how to implement interaction with the users at given points of the process execution flow, programmers will start from the front-end gadgets that the user will see and interact with, and then, afterwards, they will visually establish the connection to back-end Web services going through process execution flows if necessary. The way programmers will visually establish this connection will follow an approach similar to what sequence diagrams in UML look like.
In the context of Digital Administration, citizens expect to easily locate and manage most of their administrative procedures –like tax payments, tax declarations or administration issues– by themselves, thanks to government Web portals and services. However, most transactions and tasks demand recurrent browsing, searching and discovering through a variety of websites and services allocated in disparate government portals. These tasks imply the performance of an implicit process flow. All this disparate information and functionalities would be more useful and valuable if they were presented together in a unique mashup-based interface. However, the achievement of these goals would require dynamic mashup-based user interfaces made up of a number of screens and support for the underlying process flow, which is a tough task with no help of specifically tailored visual development environments suitable for modelling such a powerful mashup and for deploying it on current mashup platforms.
By overcoming all these constraints, FAST will provide current and future mashup platforms with more powerful gadgets, so that they can allow people to agilely interact with administration, thus considerably simplifying their daily lives.
During the last 12 and 13 of November a new FAST Face2Face developers meeting took place in SAP headquarters in Zurich. Several hot topics were discused in three parallel sessions:
Tomorrow, 24/11/2009, the Workshop on User-generated Services (UGS2009) will take place at ICSOC2009 in Stockholm, Sweden. The workshop extends the notion of user-generated content, which is at the heart of the Web2.0 paradigm, to services. Can end users be empowered not only to contribute content to the Web, but to define their own, personalised working environment, creating and adapting functionality and services to their own needs?The workshop is co-organised and sponsored by the FAST project, and among others features two presentations by FAST members. Also, there will be an invited talk on the Open Alliance for Service Front Ends, for which FAST was one of the founding members.
The FAST project online user evaluation has finished. This evaluation has been fully satisfactory. Most of the evaluators defined FAST as a good or excellent tool. Besides, they have provided a set of recommendations and new features proposal that will be analysed by the FAST team.
The FAST Project plenary meeting was held last week of September, at Kassel University. The main topics analysed during the meeting were the situation and results of the work-packages of the project, the preparation of the User evaluation stage and the summary of the improvements to be included in the deliverables to be released by the end of February 2010
The design of applications has to be done by IT experts who are familiar with programming concepts. That’s not right!
Thanks to the new innovative FAST platform, developed in the course of an EU-funded research project, you are empowered to create your own application within minutes by following the enterprise mashup principle.
The FAST platform allows you:
You don’t believe it! Please join the FAST evaluation where you will learn more about the innovative enterprise mashup concept. You will create an application for a Business-to-Business (B2B) scenario combining information sources from SAP backend systems with information sources from the Internet.
What do I need? You don’t have to install a software application and no programming experiences are required. Please just start your Firefox browser and take a look at the instruction. In addition, you find videos demonstrating the capabilities of the FAST platform.
<< LET THE ENTERPRISE MASHUP GAME BEGIN >>
The FAST evaluation is now open. So please feel free to forward the link to interested people. http://sites.google.com/site/fastonlinecontest
