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Dan Diephouse on Atom, AtomPub, REST and Web Services

Community
SOA
Topics
Web Frameworks,
Web Services

In this interview, recorded at QCon SF, Stefan Tilkov talks to noted Web services expert and open source developer Dan Diephouse about the benefits of using the Atom Pub and Atom standards for business applications, pros and cons of using REST, and upcoming features of the Apache CXF web services stack.

Tim Bray on Rails, REST, XML, Java, and More

Community
Ruby,
Java,
SOA
Topics
WS Standards,
Web Services,
Ruby on Rails,
Dynamic Languages

InfoQ Ruby editor Obie Fernandez interviews Tim Bray, one of the inventors of XML and current Director of Web Technologies for Sun Microsystems. We cover varied topics such as his opinions about Ruby and Rails, the impact of dynamic languages on web development, static versus dynamic typing, Sun's support of the JRuby project, Atom, and WS-* versus REST approaches to systems integration.

Mash-ups Meet the Enterprise

Community
SOA
Topics
Web 2.0

In this presentation recorded at JAOO, IBM's Rod Smith discusses how technologies such as Wikis are combined with Web services and Atom and RSS feeds to form mashups, enabling the next wave of DIY-IT by combining the flexibility of user-oriented information architecture provided by active content with that of content-in-flight to provide an easy-to-use end-user integration platform.

News about Atom

Microsoft bets on Atom Publishing Protocol as the future direction for Web APIs

Community
.NET,
SOA
Topics
Interop

Microsoft switches from the Web Structured, Schema’d & Searchable (Web3S) protocol to Atom Publishing Protocol (AtomPub) for services offered by Microsoft's Live Platform on the Web.

Apache Tuscany Java 1.1 Released: SCA Meets Web 2.0

Community
Java,
SOA
Topics
Javascript,
Web 2.0,
SOA Platforms,
Grid Computing,
Open Source

The Apache Tuscany team announced today the 1.1 release of the Java SCA project which adds a number of features including a JMS binding or improved policy support. It also supports an implementation extension for representing client side Javascript applications as SCA components which makes SCA a viable technology to simplify Ajax style implementations using JSONRPC or Atom bindings for instance.

Is XMPP the Future of Cloud Services?

Community
Architecture
Topics
SaaS,
EAI,
Web Services,
Performance & Scalability,
Cloud Computing

The Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP) has proven itself as a winner for instant messaging, but could it also be the protocol of choice for service integration in the future?

APP vs. Web3S: the Quest for a RESTful Protocol

Community
SOA
Topics
Web Services

In contrast to Google, who base their public RESTful services on the Atom Publishing Protocol (APP), Microsoft has found the need to go down a different route and has introduced Web3S.

Google GData/Atom Publishing Protocol too limited for Microsoft

Community
.NET,
SOA
Topics
Web Services

Dara Obasanjo writes about the limitations of the Google Data API (Google's implementation of the Atom Publishing Protocol with some extensions) as a general purpose protocol and explains why Microsoft will not support or standardize on GData.

14 Ruby projects accepted for Google Summer of Code

Community
Ruby
Topics
Open Source

14 Ruby projects were accepted for the Google Summer of Code bounty program. The projects range from a debugger for Rails, to a project writing an RSpec specification for Ruby, to protocol implementations using EventMachine and Ragel, and more.