Today, the last day of SOA course, all 5 teams have presented their work results. Here you can find the list of team wikis and projects demos:

  1. elbO - weather & route plan mashup
  2. Degalai - Fuel prices
  3. calsbergGroup – Odontologijos klinikos
  4. Panteros – TravelLit
  5. Tigrai – LIFI

After watching all these presentations and User interfaces for WS, the idea of creating a big SOA course project’s mashup has visited me and I would like to share it with you:

One summer day brother Petras realizes that it would be great to visit a dentist. He starts to google for better prices and googles a web site with all dentists of Lithuania aggregated to one site. He searches the site and finds dentist he wants to visit, but it is located in Zemaityja, Plunge and brother Petras in Druskininkai. Quite a problem to get there…

However, this newly discovered site offers him a travel route displayed on the map next to the dentist contacts. Together with the map he finds the list of directions how to get from Druskininkai to Plunge and gasolines that are situated on this route with a list of fuel prices. Moreover, on the bottom of these directions there is a list of Zemaityja most visitable places with pictures. The weather cast in the right corner of the site informs about sunny weather for the next three days – just in time to visit a dentist! “What a great idea!”, – thinks brother Petras and is ready to book!.. However, he is not just simple man… He is a clever guy and invests his money into Lithuanian funds. He wants to be always on the top of the news and to track current stock prices – no problem! He will get that through the service in the left corner of the site.

The idea is very fresh and it is hard to imagine such mega-mix in real life, but I think it is a beginning of “mashup thinking style”.

 OK, let’s go back to our evaluations, here they are:

Eval

Quite unexpected results – “Fuel price” project was really very popular among students. Well presented  practical idea for daily life ;)

However, the main beauty of this course IMHO is what we’ve got for ourselves by attending these saturdays together with the course mates, Adomas Svirskas and Giedrius Zlatkus. Thanks to you all for such great life experience!