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Book Review: RESTful Java Web Services

Introduction. RESTful web services have been with us for a while now, and initially I, like many others, was put-off by the general lack of information on how to design and implement a RESTful web services correctly. However, a number of books are now
 
benwilcock
Aug 20 2010 07:50 AM
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Deploying Apache CXF services on WebSphere Process Server

In this blog, we we look at how to deploy CXF application on WebSphere Process Server (WPS). One of the readers had asked me on how to deploy the sample application from the Chapter 2 of in WPS, since my book covers deployment on tomcat server only. It
Aug 02 2010 07:05 AM
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IPv6, Google, and Your Business

One reason why IPv6 adoption has been so slow is that everyone is waiting for everyone else to adopt it first. If that’s the reason for your own company’s sluggishness, it’s time to reconsider, because important online partners are already using the
 
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
Jul 22 2010 01:28 PM
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How to Create a Web Service in a Matter of Minutes

Offering your content or logic as a service on the web is a great idea. For starters it allows you to build numerous front-ends for your own information without having to access the databases all the time (and thus making scaling your system much
 
Christian Heilmann
Jul 15 2010 05:55 AM
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How to Create a Web Service in a Matter of Minutes

Offering your content or logic as a service on the web is a great idea. For starters it allows you to build numerous front-ends for your own information without having to access the databases all the time (and thus making scaling your system much
 
Christian Heilmann
Jul 15 2010 05:55 AM
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Web Services Security

Web services is all about interoperability among different technology platforms. So, while applying security for web services, the key thing is to have a interoperable security platform. The organizations behind web services standards ( OASIS ) have kept
 
paritoshranjan
Jun 22 2010 10:50 PM
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Securing ASP.Net Web Services with Forms Authentication

My first article for Dot Net Slackers on Securing ASP.Net Web Services with Forms Authentication is up! Have a read and let me know what you think – any feedback about the content, the writing style, the amount of code, or anything else (!) is
 
Andrew
Apr 30 2010 05:18 PM
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Calling Web Services in Android using HttpClient

A simple class for calling restful webservices (or other requests over http) in android. Includes both GET and POST as well as the ability to add headers and parameters.
 
admin
Apr 27 2010 01:32 PM
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Five minutes guide for creating your first Java web service using Axis2

This tutorial is intended for Java developers who are looking forward for developing their first SOAP based web service application. Theoretical knowledge of Web Services (including SOAP & WSDL) , practical knowledge of Eclipse IDE & ANT is a
 
Prasanna LM
Apr 15 2010 09:20 PM
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Introduction to Apache Axis Web Services

In our first post Introduction to webservices , we had covered basic of web services and its architecture . In this post , we will installation of axis engine and implementation of web services Installation of AXIS Engine Apache Axis is an Open Source
 
Vinay
Mar 30 2010 06:06 AM
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Understanding and Working with Web Services

Web services are loosely coupled, reusable software components that semantically encapsulate discrete functionality and are distributed and pro grammatically accessible over standard Internet protocols. It can be accessed pro grammatically. Unlike web
 
Vinay
Mar 30 2010 05:51 AM
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Making Contact With Mr. Gmail

Google’s Todd Jackson carries the weight of the web on his shoulders. As the product manager for Gmail, it’s his responsibility to make sure your inbox experience is fast, secure and always available. Jackson is also the product manager for
 
Michael Calore
Mar 26 2010 07:52 PM
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Spring Integration 2.0 Milestone 3 Released

The 3rd development milestone for Spring Integration 2.0 was released last week (download it here). If you have read Oleg's recent blog, you already know that we have started working on a new reference sample implementation based on the "Loan
 
Mark Fisher
Mar 23 2010 06:10 PM
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Preparing for SCDJWS Part 23: Web Services Interoperability

Interoperability is the most important thing when it comes to designing and implementing a heterogeneous distributed SOA system. When it comes to Web Services you should always stick to WS-I Basic Profile, never use proprietary, platform-specific
Mar 22 2010 11:51 AM
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Runtime Configuration of Schema Validation using Metro

When working with XML-based web services, it usually a good idea to validate all requests and responses against their associated XML schema in order to ensure the integrity of the incoming/outgoing messages. Unfortunately JAX-WS, the standard API for
Mar 15 2010 09:13 PM
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.NET WebRequest.PreAuthenticate – not quite what it sounds like

I’ve run into the  problem a few times now: How to pre-authenticate .NET WebRequest calls doing an HTTP call to the server – essentially send authentication credentials on the very first request instead of waiting for a server challenge first? At
 
Rick Strahl
Feb 19 2010 04:26 AM
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TweetCraft 2.0 source code posted!

Just posted the updated source code to TweetCraft 2.0.  Head over to http://tweetcraft.codeplex.com/SourceControl/list/changesets to check it out.
 
Coding4Fun
Feb 18 2010 02:39 AM
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TweetCraft 2.0 released!

If you like twitter and World of Warcraft, check out the Coding4Fun project, TweetCraft.  Version 2.0 brings some new features and bug fixes. Bug fixes Fixed: Twitter connection and authentication issues Removed: The Windows pop-up messages whene
 
Coding4Fun
Feb 17 2010 11:00 AM
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Workflow 4 Activity instances may be reused

We just caught this one this morning… It looks like WF 4 reuses activity instances across workflow instances. So if I have a WorkflowService that’s hosted in IIS, and I call it from two different client threads at the same time, the two workflow
 
Patrick Cauldwell
Feb 13 2010 10:14 AM
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Preparing for SCDJWS Part 21: JAX-WS handlers

JAX-WS handlers are message interceptors which can be easily plugged in to the JAX-WS runtime. What for?For example to add WS-Addressing, XML Digital Signature and/or XML Encryption (see this post: Preparing for SCDJWS Part 18: XML Digital Signature and
Feb 12 2010 09:11 AM
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Preparing for SCDJWS part 9: JAX-WS

Section 4 of exam objectives is completely dedicated to JAX-WS.Today I will write about first three points of this section:Explain JAX-WS technology for building Web Services and client that communicate using XML.Given a set of requirements for a Web
Jan 22 2010 01:10 PM
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Preparing for SCDJWS part 10: JAX-WS

Today I will write about points 4.4, 4.5, 4.6, and 4.7 of SCDJWS exam objectives:Describe and compare JAX-WS development approaches.Describe the features of JAX-WS including the usage of Java Annotations.Describe the architecture of JAX-WS including the
Jan 22 2010 01:10 PM
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Preparing for SCDJWS part 11: JAX-WS Communications Models

Today I will write about point 4.8 JAX-WS Communications Models from the SCDJWS exam objectives.To cut long story short, JAX-WS supports the following three communications models:synchronousasynchronous (in two versions, with or without AsyncHandler)one
Jan 22 2010 01:10 PM
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Preparing for SCDJWS part 16: Java EE Web Services and XML standards

Section 7 of SCDJWS exam objectives is dedicated to Java EE Web Services and various XML and WS standards.Today's post is just a set of external links. Section 7 requires a general knowledge of Java EE and XML and WS standards, so no point in
Jan 22 2010 01:09 PM
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Preparing for SCDJWS Part 14: Web Services and attachments

Last point of Section 2 of SCDJWS exam objectives says:Describe SOAP Message Construct and create a SOAP message that contains an attachmentand the last point of Section 5 says:Create and use a SOAP message with attachments using the SAAJ APIsI have
Jan 20 2010 09:56 AM
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Preparing for SCDJWS Part 12: JAX-WS Advanced clients

Today I will give you examples of Java EE clients and clients of Stateful Web Services.Let's get to work then.Standalone clientsBasically standalone clients can be dynamic or static. Through out many post about JAX-WS I gave tens of examples of such
Jan 20 2010 09:55 AM
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Annoying javax.net.ssl.SSLHandshakeException exception

This exception has to be the most annoying one I've faced over the years with Java. I'm not sure which moron's wrote the SSL library, but did they think about providing an option to disable ssl certificate validation? I wasn't...
 
Ilya Sterin
Jan 16 2010 09:09 AM
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Silverlight / WCF: fixing the Custom WCF Proxy Generator

Some days ago I blogged about how you can build your own Custom WCF Proxy generator to extend the classes it generates and add some validation logic (or whatever you like). Well playing with the MusicStore sample and making some changes to my domain
 
Guardian
Dec 16 2009 04:35 PM
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Silverlight / WCF : Writing your own Custom WCF Proxy Generator to support validation

Working on the data validation section of different projects in Silverlight we usually have to face the standard problem: basically in Silverlight 3 the data validation framework relies on exceptions thrown in the setter of objects properties. In a
 
Guardian
Dec 09 2009 04:44 PM
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Rapid Web Service Construction with Groovy

I'm reading Thomas Erl's book, "Principles of Service Design" and, when he discusses contracts, they're usually codified in WSDL and XSD. So I've been trying to find a way to quickly throw together Web Services that use WSDL and XSD so that I can play
Dec 06 2009 03:07 AM
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DevConnections Conference Code and Slides

I'm in Las Vegas this week for the DevConnections conference and wanted to get the slides and code posted for the talks as I give them.  This time around I'm talking about Silverlight (including a full-day workshop), the new Microsoft Ajax Library
Nov 20 2009 10:22 AM
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Ambiguous References in DefaultWsdlHelpGenerator.aspx

Here's a little oddball issue I ran into today that hosed - during a demo of course - all the existing ASMX Web Services text pages in one of my applications. The error that occurred resulted in a yellow screen of death when accessing the ASMX service
 
Rick Strahl
Nov 03 2009 11:52 AM
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C#: Service Caching Proxies With The A Little Help From Some Functional Code

On a current project we’re working on in our company, we are developing a web application which accesses the back-end through some web services. Nothing special really, except that certain web services provide pretty static information like lookup
 
breki
Oct 27 2009 06:57 PM
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Using ASP.NET AJAX and Web Services to Show Progress on Long Tasks, part 1 - Breaking the Task Up

IntroductionOne of the most powerful and compelling reasons to develop something as a application that runs natively on the user’s machine, as opposed to a web application, is responsiveness. The ability to give feedback about an action the user is
Jul 09 2009 06:38 AM
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Using the JAX-WS Endpoint API

JAX-WS based web services normally run on a JEE web container or application server. That's great for production purposes, as those servers provide a very high level of scalability, security infrastructure, monitoring facilities etc. But during
Apr 09 2009 10:29 PM
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WCF With GP Web Services

I'm at Convergence this week in New Orleans. If you're unfamiliar with the conference (and don't want to follow the nifty link), all you really need to know is that it's Microsoft's convention for their business solutions products. For me, that means
 
Jacob
Mar 12 2009 08:50 AM
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Article on Contract-First Web Services available for Download

My recently published article "Web Services: Auf die Plätze, fertig, los!" is now available for download as PDF file (it originally appeared in edition 3/09 of the German-speaking journal Java Magazin). I'd be happy on any comments and feedback.
Mar 07 2009 01:39 PM
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Article on web services in Java Magazin 3/09

I am so happy – this week my first article ever in a printed publication appeared. It's named "Web Services: Auf die Plätze, fertig, los!" and is published in edition 3/09 of the German-speaking journal Java Magazin. The article (written by my
Feb 07 2009 09:39 PM
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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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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