Kapow Technologies is promoting enterprise mashups through an online community.The company’s openkapow community leverages the Java-based Kapow Mashup Server. “Openkapow provides free and open access to the visual scripting tools that create mashups, built around the concept of software Robots, ” the company said on its Web site.Kapow describes mashups as an approach to development that uses composite applications and integrates with existing applications, utilizing Web 2.0 technologies such as AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML), Ruby, RSS, REST (Representational State Transfer) and Web services. Openkapow features a visual programming language for performing tasks through visual point-and-click techniques.Mashups can be developed to extend portals or to create Web services from existing application components. Application functionality can be aggregated as composite applications and data collected from various sources. Software Development