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  • How to GET a Cup of Coffee

    In this article, Jim Webber, Savas Parastatidis and Ian Robinson show how to drive an application's flow through the use of hypermedia in a RESTful application, using the well-known example from Gregor Hohpe's "Starbucks does not use Two-Phase-Commit" to illustrate how the Web's concepts can be used for integration purposes.

    Jim Webber Savas Parastatidis Ian Robinson
    on Oct 02, 2008

  • AtomServer – The Power of Publishing for Data Distribution – Part Two

    In this article, Bryon Jacob and Chris Berry continue their description of AtomServer, their implementation of a full-fledged Atom Store based on Apache Abdera. The authors have created several extensions to the AtomPub specification, among them Auto-Tagging, Batching, and Aggregate Feeds.

    Chris Berry Bryon Jacob
    on Sep 26, 2008

  • Rationalizing the Presentation Tier

    Thin client paradigm characterized by web applications is a kludge that needs to be repudiated. Old compromises are no longer needed and it's time to move the presentation tier to where it belongs. In this article, Ganesh Prasad and Peter Svensson explains how and why.

    Ganesh Prasad Peter Svensson
    on Jul 04, 2008

  • AtomServer – The Power of Publishing for Data Distribution

    In this article, Bryon Jacob and Chris Berry introduce AtomServer, their implementation of a full-fledged Atom Store based on Apache Abdera. The authors spent the last year implementing an Atom Store for Homeaway, their employer, and are mnow making the Atom Store framework available as open source.

    Chris Berry Bryon Jacob
    on Jul 02, 2008

  • REST Anti-Patterns

    In this article, Stefan Tilkov explains some of the most common anti-patterns found in applications that claim to follow a "RESTful" design and suggests ways to avoid them: tunneling everything through GET or POST, ignoring caching, response codes, misusing cookies, forgetting hypermedia and MIME types, and breaking self-descriptiveness.

    Stefan Tilkov
    on Jul 02, 2008

  • David Nuescheler on JCR and REST

    In this interview, Day CTO and JCR Spec Lead David Nuescheler discusses the benefits of JCR, the Java Content Repository standard, the difference between an API such as Atom/Atom Publishing protocol and JCR, JCR's connection to REST, and Apache Sling, a new kind of Web framework.

    Stefan Tilkov
    on Jun 10, 2008

  • A RESTful ESB implemented using NetKernel

    Jeremy Deane, Technical Architect at Collaborative Consulting, takes a look at writing a Restful ESB using NetKernel. He explains how commercial ESB's were considered and NetKernel was ultimately used to provide the implementation.

    Jeremy Deane
    on Apr 08, 2008

  • RESTful Services with Erlang and Yaws

    In this article, Steve Vinoski explains how to build RESTful Web services using the Erlang programming language and the Yaws web server. While Steve considers most Web frameworks failures simply because they were a poor match to the problem, he believes Yaws and Erlang are a better match for RESTful development than many other language frameworks that were built specifically for that purpose.

    Steve Vinoski
    on Mar 31, 2008

  • Addressing Doubts about REST

    Invariably, learning about REST means that you’ll end up wondering just how applicable the concept really isbeyond introductory, “Hello, World”-level stuff. In this article, Stefan Tilkov addresses 10 of the most common doubts people have about REST when they start exploring it, especially if they have a strong background in the architectural approach behind SOAP/WSDL-based Web services.

    Stefan Tilkov
    on Mar 13, 2008

  • Hypermedia in RESTful applications

    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.

    Mark Baker
    on Jan 28, 2008

  • Talking Rails 2.0 with David Heinemeier Hansson

    Ruby on Rails 2.0 is the next version of the premier web application framework for the Ruby language, after almost a full year in development. Rails 2.0 is full of great new features, bug fixes and lots of the polish expected from the team. InfoQ had the opportunity to talk with the creator of Rails, David Heinemeier Hansson, to learn what it's like to get this release out the door.

    Robert Bazinet
    on Dec 21, 2007
  • Architecture & Design

    A Brief Introduction to REST

    In this article, Stefan Tilkov provides a pragmatic introduction to REST (REpresentational State Transfer), the architecture behind the World Wide Web, and covers the key principles: Identifiable resources, links and hypermedia, standard methods, multiple representations and stateless communication.

    Stefan Tilkov
    on Dec 10, 2007
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