Glue

too much "VS" going on, i know. just working through comparisons, not "wars"

Event-driven Architecture

event-driven processing

event stream processing

complex event processing

WOA

RESTful stuff

REST vs. SOAP

APIs

data portability

meta-data

Google Protocol Buffers vs. Facebook Thrift

Data Glue

Mashups

cross-app integration (web apps)

Governance

Data "federation" (looking across apps at data sets)

integration of data clouds w/ internal data sets

Identity Glue

SSO

SAML

WS-*

Internet Identity

OpenID

FacebookConnect

OAuth

Infrastructure Glue

Scaling services (ie, Gnip)

Cloud

gluing internal and external clouds

API services (ie, mashery)

Web app management

Legacy integration

Content Glue

widgets

"pervasive federation" vs. "mass aggregation"?

feeds

Messaging Glue

XMPP

Microformats

Context Glue

is context just synchronization? is context diff from EDA?