OBA Mashups!
composition in the enterprise has been a holy grail, but the lack of a solid app platform that allows for decoupling and provide the 'containers' needed for composing components didn't exist. With SharePoint, we have such a platform. OBAs are composite apps, created by mashing up Web parts, content types, workflows, etc.
Yesterday, at the Office Developer Conference, we announced an OBA Composition Reference Toolkit that allows for easy mashups of OBA components to create OBAs. This is a very cool idea, Information Workers can use a WPF composer to select components from a gallery that based on meta data finds related and supported components. Once the components are assembled, IW can provision the OBA to a hosted SharePoint instance....just like that!
The idea is for developers to use tools like VSTO, SPD, VS to create components, make them metadata rich and an OBA component server can discover and make these composable. While the IW can create the end mashups that allow them to perform their task at hand
Watch me talk about this more at:
http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=382063
You can download the content and the msi from msdn
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/architecture/cc196391.aspx
