Abstract
This chapter describes how modeling the correspondence between site and service can enable a Web site to serve as an automatic code example corpus for its service application programming interface (API). Many popular Web sites offer a public API that allows Web developers to access site data and functionality programmatically. The site and its API offer two complementary views of the same underlying functionality. This chapter introduces d.mix, a Web development tool that leverages this site-to-service correspondence to rapidly create Web service–based applications. With d.mix, users browse annotated Web sites and select elements on the page they would like to access programmatically. It then generates code for the underlying Web service calls that yield those elements. This code can be edited, executed, and shared in a wiki-based hosting environment. The application d.mix leverages preexisting Web sites as example sets and supports rapid composition and modification of examples. d.mix has been regarded as a building block toward new authoring environments that facilitate prototyping of rich data and interaction models.
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