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Microsoft Has Open Sourced the VS Code Language Server Protocol
Microsoft has open sourced the protocol used by VS Code’s editor to communicate with the various language servers supported.
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New JSON Binding Library Is Ready for Public Review
JSON-B, the JSON binding library expected to be added to Java EE 8, has been released for public review. The library builds on top of JSON Processing, and intends to provide a standard alternative to popular libraries like Jackson or Gson. The JSR is only targeted for inclusion Java EE though, meaning users of Java SE will still need to make use of external libraries.
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Ticketmaster Launches API Suite
Ticketmaster joined the event API landscape in late March with the launch of their developer portal, a suite of public-facing APIs, Web page widgets, and a forthcoming SDK for mobile application integration.
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Visa Launches Visa Developer Suite of APIs
Visa Developer opens the world’s largest retail payment network to the world of developers. The suite of APIs available via this newly launched platform include far more than the expected credit card validation and authorization systems by including APIs for micro-transactions, wish lists, and shopping carts.
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Samsung SAMI – a D3 Platform for the IoT
Samsung SAMI is a Data-driven Development (D3) platform for receiving, storing and sending data to/from IoT devices. Any device can send data in various formats which is then normalized into a JSON format and stored in the cloud. Data can then be requested by other devices.
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Getting JSON Data with Netflix Falcor
Netflix has open sourced Falcor, a JavaScript library offering a model and asynchronous mechanism for fetching JSON data from multiple sources.
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Google Proposes to Enhance JSON with Jsonnet
Google has open sourced Jsonnet, a configuration language that supersedes JSON and adds new features without breaking backwards compatibility: comments, references, arithmetic and conditional operators, array and object comprehension, imports, functions, local variables, inheritance and others. Jsonnet programs are translated to compliant JSON data formats.
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MySQL Offers a REST API
A prototype of MySQL 5.7 is shipping with an optional component called the MySQL HTTP Plugin. This plugin allows direct access to MySQL via a REST over HTTP interface, eliminating the need for a middle-tier server or database specific drivers.
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Core Support for JSON in Java 9
One of the first Java 9 features to be announced is core support for JSON. We spoke to early adopters to find out more.
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Heroku’s HTTP API Design Guide
Wesley Beary, a member of the API team at Heroku, has compiled a list of guidelines for creating HTTP+JSON APIs presented in a condensed form here.
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APIs.json: Publishing and Discovering APIs
APIs.json lets domains make their APIs public and discoverable by search engines.
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Oracle Database Gets In-Memory
Oracle Database 12c Release 1 (12.1.0.2) is now available and includes the much anticipated “In-memory” feature, along with several other improvements.
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UN's New ReliefWeb API Improves Humanitarian Dev Experience
This update to the premier source of humanitarian data worldwide will help international aid organizations by simplifying access, improving data flexibility, and improving the system's performance and robustness.
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Jackson Founder, Tatu Saloranta, responds to JSON Benchmarks
Last week, InfoQ reported that Groovy 2.3 has a much faster JSON parser than previous versions. While creating the article, we sent an email to Tatu Saloranta, founder of the Jackson JSON processor. We wanted to see what he thought about Rick Hightower reporting that Groovy and Boon provide the fastest JSON parser for the JVM.
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Groovy 2.3 gets a much faster JSON Parser
Groovy 2.3 will ship with one of the fastest JSON parsers on the JVM, according to Rick Hightower, the ubiquitous consultant and author.