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Rest Agent uses hypermedia

As I alluded to in my first post, REST clients really should be driven by hypermedia.  So how can our RestAgent class access this hypermedia and its links.  Ideally, given a single root URI, I would like to be able to do: var agent = new
 
admin
Aug 13 2010 06:29 AM
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The value of APIs that can be crawled

Recently, there was an interesting article on ReadWriteWeb questioning the long term effect of the proliferation of public APIs, versus merely offering crawlable data. On one hand – the article argued – APIs offer a great deal of control to
Aug 12 2010 05:12 AM
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Looking at Apache Wink JAX-RS framework

Apache Wink is a Java based framework for building RESTful applications. It provides implementation of JAX-RS specification and is currently under Apache incubation. Apache wink provides a service module for developing JAX-RS compatible RESTful services
Aug 11 2010 07:47 AM
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Laying the foundation for RESTful web services

Ever now and then you find a new piece of software or feature, which ends up changing the way you work, saving you time and just overall making things easier for you and your organization. We think that the RESTx project with its new 0.9.2 release gains
Aug 05 2010 10:53 AM
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RESTx version 0.9.2 released

Today we are happy to announce the release of version 0.9.2 of RESTx – the fastest and simplest way to create RESTful web services. Besides the usual, numerous small improvements and fixes there are also a number of exciting major new features and
Aug 03 2010 11:59 AM
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Testing REST Web Services with JPA and Spring

REST Web Services can be particularly difficult to test, with the need for networking, a web container, multiple threads and transaction management creating extra complexity beyond your standard unit test. In this article I demonstrate patterns designed
Jul 29 2010 08:52 PM
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Screencast: From install to RESTful resource in less than 3 minutes

RESTx: From install to RESTful resource in less than 3 minutesWe have put up a screencast that shows you how to get started with RESTx, our platform for the rapid, easy creation of RESTful web services. RESTx allows developers to contribute data access,
Jul 21 2010 06:38 AM
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Easily optimizing Python: Extending with Java

Our RESTx project – a platform for the rapid and easy creation of RESTful web services and resources – is largely written in Python. Python is a dynamic, duck-typed programming language, which puts very little obstacles between your idea and
Jul 20 2010 07:50 AM
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Turbo charging front-end development with user-created RESTful resources

In this article, I will show you how RESTx – an open source project for the creation of RESTful resources – allows front-end developers to quickly and easily make their own data resources, without having to rely on the back-end server team
Jul 15 2010 05:37 AM
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REST and HTTP Digest Authentication

It seems so simple: use the HTTP Digest Authorization with the Quality of Protection set to "auth". It's an easy algorithm. A nonce that encodes a timestamp can be used to be sure no one is attempting to cache credentials. It's potentially very, very
Apr 23 2010 07:44 PM
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Taking Repos Offline/Online via the Nexus REST API

This post runs through a simple Ruby script which manipulates the offline/online status of Hosted Nexus repositories. Such a script would be useful if you need to manipulate the storage of a repository while Nexus is running. Assume you have a script
Apr 22 2010 10:17 AM
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REST and XML using Spring MVC and Groovy

There's one particular thing Groovy is really good for and that is working with XML. When I started playing around with the REST support in the latest version of Spring MVC I wanted to try using Spring for the controller infrastructure and delegate to
 
Mattias Hellborg Arthursson
Apr 09 2010 05:02 PM
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Tcat Server 6 R2 P1 Released, Including the Newest Apache Tomcat

We’re pleased to announce the immediate availability of our newest release of Tcat Server 6. This new release includes many fixes, in addition to bundling the Apache Software Foundation’s official release binaries of the newest Tomcat
Mar 24 2010 01:02 AM
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Mashups and ESBs at Qcon

I had a great time at Qcon London last week, it really is one of the more forward thinking conferences out there for the enterprise. I gave two talks on ESBs and Enterprise Mashups so I figured I’d share the slides. ESB or not to ESB The ESB has
Mar 17 2010 02:02 AM
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REST: Resources, URI’s and Representations

In this post I will begin introducing the architectural style known as Representational State Transfer (REST).  REST is viable for both services and applications.  Wrap your mind around this style and you will quickly see how straightforward it
 
cory.isakson
Mar 16 2010 08:23 AM
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Fresh Catch For February 22nd

These are my new delicious links for February 22nd: PUT or POST: The REST of the Story « Open Sourcery The Cafes » PUT is not UPDATE Cool Crack: Faux Photography 98 Stunning Super-Realistic Works of Art Winter Fishing in Sweden | World Of
 
breki
Feb 22 2010 02:49 PM
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Open Rasta presentation, or “How to throw a rest into the mix”

I’m imagining the thought process of some of the session voters for the upcoming Mix conference. “Hey, here’s one on Open Rasta by the Coding Hillbilly. You know what would be funny? Let’s all vote for it even though he just submitted it on a lark to get
Jan 28 2010 09:26 PM
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RESTful orchestration with JOpera

// // // Web services orchestration In considering the concept of orchestration, we generally think about the sequence of activities (calls to the services) representing the business process. Decoupling orchestration logic from service layer provides
 
Vasil Remeniuk
Jan 21 2010 01:12 AM
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Tracing Intermittent Errors – Guest blog by Lucy Monahan from Novell

Lucy Monahan is a Principal Performance QA Engineer at Novell, and helps to manage their distributed Agile process. Intermittent problems can be difficult to solve: the value may be corrupted potentially at any time before the value is used the
Dec 02 2009 11:48 PM
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Giving up on SOAP for good

When .Net originally launched it came with first rate support for Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) and at the time I was seriously impressed. Creating a SOAP client-server connection was amazingly easy - little more than adding a .asmx file and
Nov 24 2009 06:09 PM
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My Profile page: a RESTful single resource using Formtastic

I’ve just implemented the My Profile tab for Sano: Can I write 500 words about? Well, I can try. I like using RESTful routes. In case you don’t know what they are let me try to explain it quick, at least the relevant part. You normally have a
 
Pablo
Nov 22 2009 06:56 PM
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Five important trends on the enterprise architect’s radar

It is no secret that the internet architectures are influencing enterprise architectures. This post attempts to summarise some of the recent trends in the internet space, which seem to be carrying some momentum sufficient enough to influence the
 
Dhananjay Nene
Nov 02 2009 10:49 AM
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Service oriented REST architecture is an oxymoron

It is infrequent for me to react with a level of consternation rather than agreement or disagreement that I felt upon reading [SOA] Boris on Service, Web and REST by Jean-Jacques Dubray. Not because I disagreed strongly with the arguments presented. It
 
Dhananjay Nene
Oct 01 2009 12:04 AM
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CRUD is not only good for, but is the only consistent way to build REST over HTTP

This is to comment on a perception forming that REST encourages exposing basic data elements through CRUD and that it encourages development of dumb applications (applications with shallow business logic). Apart from some tweets I saw on the topic and
 
Dhananjay Nene
Aug 14 2009 11:05 AM
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REST - a quick summary

I'd read a lot of blogs talking about REST and it's benefits but I hadn't fully got it. Whilst on holiday I read RESTful Web Services, which I had seen recommended, in an effort to try and finally grok REST. I thoroughly recommend this book, it helped me
 
Garry Shutler
tags: rest
Jul 13 2009 01:42 AM
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Presentation : ReST explained

My presentation as a part of TechWeekend, Pune last Saturday. Note that it is a very long presentation. It was designed for a 3 hour slot and attempted to introduce ReST to users who had relatively little exposure to ReST. ReST (Representational State
 
Dhananjay Nene
tags: rest
Jul 07 2009 11:35 AM
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Musings on REST

This is a summarisation of a four part series of posts I wrote on REST over the past week. This post lists each of them along with a very high level summary and a small snippet from each hopefully sufficient enough to tickle your thoughts and interests.
 
Dhananjay Nene
Jun 12 2009 02:46 AM
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ReST : SOA, WOA or ROA ?

This is part 4 of a continuing series of posts on ReST. So you might want to read up the earlier ones as well (chronologically they are the three posts before this) Nice alphabet soup indeed. But what style of architecture does ReST (Representational
 
Dhananjay Nene
Jun 10 2009 10:22 PM
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Design Characteristics of REST / Resource Oriented Server Frameworks and Clients

This post is the third part of continuing series of articles on REST. The first one was Why REST ? and the next one was REST is the DBMS of the internet with hopefully some more to follow in the coming weeks. Struts, Django, Ruby on Rails. We’ve
 
Dhananjay Nene
Jun 10 2009 04:34 PM
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GWT, Spring 3.0 MVC, and REST on Google App Engine / Java - Part 2

From Part 1 of GWT, Spring 3.0 MVC and REST on Gae/J posting, you should now have a spring application with REST up and running and should be deployable on google app engine. Integrating GWT with your backend now is pretty straight forward for the most
Apr 29 2009 01:10 AM
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GWT, Spring 3.0 MVC, and REST on Google App Engine / Java - Part 1

When googleing how to integrate GWT and Spring/Spring mvc, the most popular answer is to use the GWT- Widget/Server Library. The solutions are wrapping pojos as an RPC service or for better performance taking a spring controller and adding RPC
Apr 22 2009 02:36 AM
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Deserializing the request body into a parameter with ASP.NET MVC

After a few weeks of prototyping a RESTful API using both WCF 3.5 and ASP.NET MVC, I came to the conclusion that ASP.NET MVC is by far the superior implementation choice. However, there are some nice features in WCF which ASP.NET MVC doesn't have out of
Jan 21 2009 05:36 AM
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RESTful Query URLs

The last couple of days I've been working on writing a RESTful JSON document database. While a number of these already exist (CouchDB, FeatherDB, DovetailDB, Persevere, JSONStore, etc.), I decided to write my own because I wanted a bit more control over
Nov 01 2008 05:23 AM
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JAX-RS serves JAXB objects!

I decided to play around with JAX-RS. It's a really nice API. Browsing the Internet for random information about it, I discovered it's ability to serve JAXB-marshalled objects out-of-the-box! Hence I'm already using JAXB for persistency, it was a work of
Oct 18 2008 04:09 AM
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To REST or not to REST?

Currently I use custom servlets (screenshot shows SVG servlet). But I'm thinking about switching to JAX-RS (not yet part of Java EE), which is an API for RESTful web services. It enables such nice things as mapping URLs to ressources.
Oct 17 2008 08:29 PM
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am loving Beyond REST and the PIMP protocol

I really enjoyed reading Joshua Schachter's post beyond rest today - and particularly the comments. The basic idea is how to get a kinda publish/subscribe system to work on the web for processing real time updates to things like social sites at internet
Aug 29 2008 03:51 PM
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Computers don't care whether your resources are directly addressable

The article Roots of the REST/SOAP Debate (along with many others like it) claims that SOAP web services have a limitation in that resources they work with are not directly addressable via a URI, but that you have to connect to the SOAP endpoint and then
Aug 24 2008 09:46 PM
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Project Astoria is now RTM

Whohoooo, Astoria is RTM
Aug 12 2008 03:31 AM
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ASP.Net Web Forms dying a slow death?

Being a web programmer for the last 10 years, I've seen a few different paradigms come and go in the web world. Looking around today, I can't help but think that the writings are on the wall for the ASP.Net "webforms" web application
 
morgan
Apr 26 2008 07:32 AM