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Open Source WS Stacks for Java - Design Goals and Philosophy

InfoQ's Stefan Tilkov questioned lead developers of Apache Axis2, Apache CXF, Spring Web Services, JBossWS and and Sun’s Metro about their design goals, their approach towards Java and Web services standards, data binding, accessing XML, interoperability, REST support, and framework maturity. The results revealed many similarities and some noteworthy differences.

Stefan Tilkov
on Oct 04, 2007
Interview and Book Excerpt: RESTful Web Services

Today, InfoQ publishes a sample chapter from RESTful Web Services, a book authored by Leonard Richardson and Sam Ruby. The book covers the principles of the REST style, and explains how to build RESTful applications using Java, Ruby, and Python. InfoQ's Stefan Tilkov had a chance to talk to the authors about their motivations for writing this book and their views on REST and Web services.

Stefan Tilkov
on Jun 01, 2007
Interview: Jérome Louvel about Restlet

In this exclusive InfoQ interview, Jérome Louvel talks about Restlet, a Java framework for building Web applications following the REST architectural style. Topics covered include the reason for Restlet's existence, REST support in Web services frameworks and in Ruby on Rails, expectations for JSR 311 and Restlet's roadmap.

Stefan Tilkov
on Apr 17, 2007
Versatile RESTful APIs Beyond XML

The world of RESTful resources that Rails firmly entered with version 1.2 naturally uses XML as its lingua franca. But there's no reason that it can't be multi-lingual, and thanks to the versatility of rails it's easy to support other standards alongside XML in our RESTful applications, potentially opening them up to a wider audience and/or reducing their bandwidth requirements.

James Stewart
on Mar 13, 2007
Interview with Sanjiva Weerawarana: Debunking REST/WS-* Myths

InfoQ had a chance to talk to WS-* expert and WSO2 CEO Sanjiva Weerawarana, one of the fathers and a firm advocate of the WS-* architectural vision, we questioned him on the WS-* platform and his views on Microsoft's role in standardization. Sanjiva also took the opportunity to address "WS-* and REST myths".

Stefan Tilkov
on Feb 16, 2007
Interview: Pete Lacey Criticizes Web Services

Pete Lacey, formerly working with Systinet and now with Burton Group, recently became well-known in the SOA community because of a series of blog posts starting with a very funny one entitled "S stands for Simple". In this interview, Pete talks to InfoQ about the problems he sees with Web services in general, SOAP, WSDL and UDDI, as well as advanced standards from the WS-* family.

Stefan Tilkov
on Dec 12, 2006
The Lost Art of Separating Concerns

In a short article, well-known REST proponent Mark Baker claims the default, Web services-based approach to SOA development fails to properly separate concerns, and describes how the more generic interface used in Web architecture leads to an improvement.

Mark Baker
on Dec 04, 2006
Java, .NET, But Why Together?

The Java vs. NET war is over. In this article, Ted Neward looks at how we can leverage the strengths of each together, such as using Microsoft Office to act as a "rich client" to a Java middle-tier service, or building a Windows Presentation Foundation GUI on top of Java POJOs, or even how to execute Java Enterprise/J2EE functionality from within a Windows Workflow host.

Ted Neward
on Oct 05, 2006
Give it a REST: Mark Baker on Web Services

Mark Baker is well-known in the SOA and Web services community because of his continuous efforts to promote REST (REpresentational State Transfer), criticizing many of the standards and specifications as being ignorant of what made and continues to make the Web successful. Stefan Tilkov had the chance to talk to Mark about REST principles, its benefits, and the relationship to Web services.

Stefan Tilkov
on Aug 28, 2006
Web Services Guru Dr. Frank Leymann on SOA

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.

Stefan Tilkov
on Aug 14, 2006