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

Topics

Dynamic Languages,

Web Services,

Ruby on Rails,

Ruby,

SOA,

Java,

WS Standards

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.

•  By  Tim Bray, Obie Fernandez, Floyd Marinescu on Oct 11, 2006,
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