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Securely Managed API Technologies Key to Fostering Market Innovation

Web services offer distinct go-to-market velocity in terms of real-time innovation, but requires new standards in the way APIs are secured and managed and the nature in which APIs communicate between organizations at the B2B enterprise gateway level.

Atchison Frazer
on Jul 19, 2013
The Virtual Tug of War

Technology professionals have always fought an unrelenting war not dissimilar to feud between the Hatfields and McCoys – a continuous conflict with no winners. In the world of IT, this is a battle over security and performance fought by security professionals and network administrators. These two factions have always had to barter and maintain an uneasy truce in organizations in order to survive.

Michael Rothschild
on Jul 10, 2013
Adding Flexibility to your REST Implementation with Yoga

In cases when one desires to provide fine-grained control over the structure of the document responses based on the needs of their clients, Yoga is an open source alternative that integrates with existing REST applications. Yoga provides clients the ability to use selectors, which can be used as projection, selection and join relational operators.

Corby Page
on Jun 27, 2013
Designing and Implementing Hypermedia APIs

This article (the second in a four-part series) walks through the implementation of a hypermedia server based on the design for the class scheduling problem domain outlined in the first installment of this series. In upcoming weekly installments of the series, details of implementing hypermedia clients will be reviewed along with techniques for evolving the API safely over time.

Mike Amundsen
on Feb 19, 2013
Designing and Implementing Hypermedia APIs

This article (the first in a four-part series) talks briefly about the concept of using hypermedia as an application programming interface (API) and how to design a hypermedia type to use as a basis for your API. In upcoming weekly installments of the series, details of implementing hypermedia servers and clients will be reviewed along with techniques for evolving the API safely over time.

Mike Amundsen
on Feb 05, 2013
Introduction to Interface-Driven Development Using Swagger and Scalatra

Since it began life a little over three years ago, the Scalatra web micro-framework has evolved into a lightweight but full-featured MVC framework with a lively community behind it. Scalatra started out as a port of Ruby's Sinatra to the Scala language. Since then the two systems have evolved independently, with Scalatra gaining capabilities such as an Atmosphere integration and Akka support.

Dave Hrycyszyn
on Nov 06, 2012
Introducing: Restful Objects

Restful Objects is a public specification of a hypermedia API for domain object models. Version 1.0.0 of the specification has just been released and there are already two open source frameworks that implement the specification - one for the Java platform and one for .NET.

Richard Pawson Dan Haywood
on Jul 19, 2012
Interview and Book Excerpt: Service Design Patterns

"Service Design Patterns" catalogs design patterns that cover the entire lifecycle of web services. This book is the latest addition to the Martin Fowler signature series which also contains a section on consumer driven contracts contributed by Ian Robinson. InfoQ talked to Rob Daigneau, the author of the book, regarding various topics related to the core idea behind "Service Design Patterns".

Jeevak Kasarkod
on Jan 20, 2012
How REST replaced SOAP on the Web: What it means to you

The number of REST APIs has grown dramatically over the last 5 years. However, most developers are still struggling to find an agreed upon definition of a RESTful Architecture leading to a lot of inconsistencies in the way these APIs are implemented. This article details how Mule iON, an Integration Platform as a Service, provides a consistent way to expose APIs and API mashups.

Ross Mason
on Oct 20, 2011
Is REST the future for SOA?

In this article Boris Lublinsky discusses architectural difference between SOA and REST and discusses different approaches for leveraging REST in SOA implementations

Boris Lublinsky
on Aug 11, 2011
Dependency Injection with Mark Seemann

Mark Seemann, author of Dependency Injection in .NET, talks to us about the differences between DI and Service Locators and the importance of having a Composite Root. He also touches on how these all relate back to the SOLID principals of object oriented design.

Jonathan Allen
on Jun 27, 2011
Interview With Ross Mason On The Release Of Mule 3

Mulesoft recently released Mule 3, their next generation ESB platform. The product comes with a lot of architectural changes under the hood to support the features aimed at making the product easier to use, such as Mule Cloud Connect and Flow, a message flow based service design. InfoQ caught up with Ross Mason to learn more about the product release and the new features in the product offering.

Dilip Krishnan
on Nov 16, 2010

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