A Method for Integration of Web Applications Based on Information Extraction

Integration of Web services from different Web sites has brought new creativity and functionality to Web applications. These integration technologies, called mashup or mixup, have made a shift in Web service development and created a new generation of widely popular and successful Web services such as Google Maps API and YouTube Data API. However, the integration is limited to the Web sites that provide the open Web service APIs, and currently, most existing Web sites do not provide Web services. In this paper, we present a method to integrate the general Web applications. For this purpose, we propose a Web information extraction method to generate the virtual Web service functions from Web applications at client side. Our implementation shows that the general Web applications can be also integrated easily.