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Real World Web Services

Posted by Scott Davis on Aug 29, 2007 04:50 AM

Community
SOA
Topics
Web Services
Tags
SOAP,
XML,
No Fluff Just Stuff Symposiums,
JSON,
AJAX,
REST,
WSDL
Summary
In this presentation, Scott Davis provides a pragmatic, down-to-earth introduction to Web services as used in the real world by public sites, including SOAP-based, REST and POX-style examples. While the buzzword density leaves nothing to be desired, the presentation contains a very accessible introduction to the core Web services standards.

Bio
Scott Davis is an author and independent consultant who has worked on a variety of Java platforms, from J2EE to J2SE to J2ME (sometimes all on the same project). Scott is the co-author of "JBoss At Work", "Google Maps API" and "GIS for Web Developers", and the Editor in Chief of aboutGroovy.com. His website is http://www.davisworld.org.

About the conference
The No Fluff Just Stuff Software Symposium Series is designed to cover the latest in trends, best practices, and newest developments in Enterprise Java, Java/Groovy, ESB/SOA, Ajax, Web Services, Agility, and Architecture.

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An excellent talk by Nathan Farrington Posted Aug 30, 2007 4:10 PM
Re: An excellent talk by Mittal Bhiogade Posted Aug 31, 2007 8:11 AM
Too long by mr lobo Posted Sep 4, 2007 4:07 AM
Re: Too long by Diego Santos Leao Posted Nov 19, 2007 1:05 AM
Real world web services by kader goudjil Posted Jan 31, 2008 9:25 AM
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    An excellent talk

    Aug 30, 2007 4:10 PM by Nathan Farrington

    Scott, thank you so much for posting that talk. I learned a lot about the difference between SOAP and REST. I also enjoyed learning about Client/SOA and what an ESB is.

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    Re: An excellent talk

    Aug 31, 2007 8:11 AM by Mittal Bhiogade

    man... this talk put me to sleep !!! Author reached core of talk after 45-50 minutes later in this presentation

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    Too long

    Sep 4, 2007 4:07 AM by mr lobo

    For sure he tries to be entertaining and I do not want to dismiss his ability to be so, but he could have made his point in one fourth of the time used. He talks from a personal and programmers point of view. You get to know this guy really, but the question is do you want to? :) Sorry, I didn't. On top of that I got very irritated just by his tone of voice which is always making the same kind of transition from whispering something to shouting it..

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    Re: Too long

    Nov 19, 2007 1:05 AM by Diego Santos Leao

    As a student lost in the buzzwords, I liked his presentation very much. He reviewed the buzzwords giving some clear definitions (which are rare), and then comparing "traditional" web services with REST, giving his opinion. If that was his goal, it was achieved. I think the problem here is that the title was poorly chosen. The content of the presentation is much better described by the subtitle of it.

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    Real world web services

    Jan 31, 2008 9:25 AM by kader goudjil

    A really great presentation thanks a lot..

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