Jexy.com
Overview
Under the expert guidance of executive and self-taught engineer
Clay Loveless, jexy.com is poised to make a huge impact on the
application programming interface (API) in 2011. Loveless, who served as
the technical cofounder of Mashery, a leading provider of web-based API
management services, has spent the past several months developing a new
API product through jexy.com, one that will take advantage of the
current lack of market representation in the productivity data sector to
provide clients with a comprehensive SaaS (software-as-a-service)
platform. The jexy.com SaaS platform will enable developers to build
productivity applications more efficiently.
In order to accomplish its goals, Jexy employs a three-pronged
approach in its design. First, the access engine allows developers to
communicate with multiple complicated back-end protocols such as the
Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) and Microsoft’s heavy-duty SOAP
protocol Exchange Web Services (EWS), followed by the calendaring
extensions to WebDAV (called CalDAV), as well as the Thrift interface
used by the popular Evernote Corporation.
Second, Jexy’s officially supported client libraries will support
self-updating of API method signatures, which should make a developer’s
use of the API very tolerant to backend service changes.
Finally, Jexy’s innovative abstraction layer makes use of thin data
layers to smooth out backend differences, allowing developers to remove
brittle hacks from their own codebases.
The initial Jexy offering will be based in the public cloud, but the
company plans to follow with an on-premesis solution available to
customers whose needs require behind-the-firewall deployment.
Jexy.com is scheduled for an alpha release in the third quarter of 2011.