Splice for Web Service Mashups

This post plays off the previous on cloud computing. Full disclosure: I work for Xignite and helped to write Splice.



Splice is a web service mashup platform that allows you mix and mash web services. (One can think of this as combining the results from multiple web services and altering the output as desired: renaming, dropping, and restructuring the output.) The development environment is graphical meaning that you can do all this without any programming. It also has the added benefit of making web service calls in parallel where possible. Often in programming parallezing parts of a program can be difficult, so this is an important benefit. Thus one can think of Splice facilitating the customized exchange of data between systems via web services.

So how does this fit in with quantum computing? One could use it to tie together various simulation pieces to facilitate simulations across various systems.