OpenAPI-based message router for mashup service development

Owing to the development of information technology, many people can access various services through the Internet. In addition, with the emergence of the Web 2.0 concept of opening, participating, and sharing, public institutions and companies have made it possible to use their data and services in a variety of ways. In this environment, service providers have developed new services by linking open data and services to meet the rapidly changing requirements of Internet users. A new service developed through the interworking of data and services is called a mashup service. A mashup service has the advantage of providing useful functions required by users by combining the existing data and services. However, to develop a mashup service, it is necessary to process the data collected from other sources and link the services, which greatly increases the developers burden. In this study, we propose an open application programming interface (openAPI)-based message router for mashup service development to overcome this problem. The message router supports the development of the mashup service by providing useful functions required by the developer in cooperation with various platforms according to the request messages transmitted through openAPI.