Building an Enterprise App Store with WSO2 Gadget Server

In my previous post, Portals and Mashups in the Cloud , I described an ecosystem that can be deployed either in your data centre or in the cloud. An ecosystem such as above will allow enterprises to do two important things; Expose APIs for third party mashup/gadget developers to utilise in their apps Maintain a repository where business users can visit, browse and select apps from. These apps run in their personal portal pages. Within that post lies the fundamentals of an Enterprise App Store . What is an enterprise app store? Well, in the mobile device world of iPhones, Androids and Symbians, we all use an app store at one point or the other. Whether it's iTunes, The Android Market Place or Nokia's OVI Store, we all visit them and they provide one significant benefit in general. We get to personalise our device with the applications we need. We get to build, at a software level, a phone that is optimised for our day-to-day use, without being programmers. We also get to influen