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Hypermedia in RESTful applications

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SOA
Topics
Design

One of the constraints defined for the architectural style known as REST is "hypermedia as the engine of application state". Mark Baker, well-known for being one of the first who advocated the REST style instead of the mainstream web services approach, discusses that the hypermedia constraints means in practice and why it is essential to RESTful design.

Web Services Guru Dr. Frank Leymann on SOA

Community
SOA
Topics
WS Standards

Frank Leymann is a full professor at the University of Stuttgart and co-author of many Web Service specifications, including WSFL, WS-Addressing, WS-Metadata Exchange, and the WS-Resource Framework set of specifications. He was one of the driving forces behind BPEL4WS. InfoQ's Stefan Tilkov talks to Dr Leymann about SOA research, REST, Web Services and other important topics for SOA.

News about Web 2.0

SPARQL Update to Complete RESTful SOA Scenario

Community
SOA
Topics
Semantic Web

The Linking Open Data Community Project has accomplished a global RESTful SOA giving access to over two billion interlinked statements (RDF triples) from some 50 distributed providers with one serious limitation: this stunning network provides read access only. The upcoming SPARQL Update language is going to overcome this.

Adobe Moves Towards Greater Flash Openness and Availability

Community
Java
Topics
Rich Internet Apps,
Rich Client / Desktop

This week Adobe continued their push towards greater openness within their Flash based technologies. In a move greatly targeted at developers, major adjustments were made to eliminate the licensing restrictions and third-party fees for distributing the Flash Player runtime.

Interview: Smalltalk Dave about Programming Languages, SOA, MDA and the Web

Community
Architecture
Topics
Web 2.0,
SOA Platforms,
Modeling,
Dynamic Languages,
Programming

In an interview at OOPSLA, Dave Thomas talks about the reasons for the rise of Java, what's behind Web 2.0, MDA and SOA, the rise of dynamic languages and the opportunities that he sees in the web as a platform.

Flex and the Open Web

Community
Java
Topics
Web 2.0,
Rich Internet Apps,
Rich Client / Desktop

Kevin Dangoor of SitePen recently blogged about Flash, Silverlight and the Open Web. He offers his defense for open standards as the best future for the web. Adobe's Ryan Stewart, a Flex evangelist, responds.

Mozilla Prism 0.9 Released

Community
Java
Topics
Web 2.0,
Runtimes,
Rich Client / Desktop,
Open Source

Mozilla Prism 0.9 was released last month. Prism is a Single Site Browser (SSB), which aims to move applications from the browser to the desktop, while still using browser based technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Flash, etc).

Cool URIs in a RESTful World

Community
SOA
Topics
Semantic Web

What might this be: "envisioned as a decentralised world-wide information space for sharing machine-readable data with a minimum of integration costs"? Is this about REST? Nope. According to SWEO, it is about the Semantic Web. Cool URIs will help making this way. So it might be worth looking whether RESTful SOA URIs can also be "cool".

New Thin Server Architecture and SOFEA Working Group Web Site Launched

Community
Architecture
Topics
Rich Internet Apps,
Web Frameworks,
Design

Peter Svensson, Ganesh Prasad, and Mario Valente have teamed up to create the Thin Server Architecture Working Group and launched a web site. The site included several resources about Thin Server Architecture and Service Oriented Front End Applications (SOFEA) as well as insight into the philosophy behind the technology.