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How RESTful Are Web Frameworks That Claim REST Support?
There are plenty of web services platforms/application frameworks available today that support RESTful services to varying degrees. In a recent post Stefan Tilkov puts out a list of criteria that can serve as a starting point in evaluating these frameworks and platforms.
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NetBeans 6.9 Release Supports JavaFX, Java EE6 and OSGi
Oracle has released version 6.9 of its popular open-source Java IDE, NetBeans. This is the first release under its stewardship since it accquired Sun Microsystems.
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Is REST Capable of Solving Systems Integration Issues?
In his new post Steve Jones examines the state of IT and systems integration today and determines that it is in a worse place now than it was 5 years ago.
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Are GET And POST Enough To Create RESTful Services?
Mike Amundsen asks, in an post that examines alternatives to how one might develop RESTful services in environments constrained to a choice of using just GET and POST.
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REST and versioning
The problem of how to version services in a REST-based environment is something that comes up time and again. This time Ganesh Prasad offers a proposed solution based not on modifications to the service URL but on the fundamental reason behind versioning in the first place.
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CouchDB as the Personal Database
While attending the Berlin Buzzwords NoSql conference, Jan Lehnardt (@janl) one of conference organizers and co-author of CouchDB: The Definitive Guide (a free O'Reilly book). presented a talk titled: "Making Software for Humans - CouchDB and The Usable Peer-to-Peer Web".
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Restful Services in Ruby using JRuby and Jersey
In an effort to bring the expressiveness of ruby and the REST frameworks in Java, Charles Nutter makes the case for delevoping RESTful services in JRuby+Rails.
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Facebook's Graph API: The Future Of Semantic Web?
“There are two important themes behind everything we're delivering today.” says Bret Taylor, head of Facebook’s platform products in the facebook developer blog, of the recent announcements at the f8 conference in San Francisco. Facebook introduced Open Graph protocol, and the Graph API as the next evolution in the Facebook platform.
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Three Levels of the REST Maturity Model
In his new article Martin Fowler provides a step-by-step explanation of Leonard Richardson’s REST maturity model.
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Dealing with REST Services Security
With REST gaining popularity for SOA implementations, the issue of REST services security becomes more and more important each day. In their article, Why REST security doesn't exist, Chris Comerford and Pete Soderling discuss approaches to securing REST services.
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Versioning Strategies For RESTful Services
In this article Stu Charlton examines the various options available for versioning RESTful services which he prefaces by saying “These can be tricky concepts to describe, and I don't really want to write a small book on this topic”.
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Azure Drive Eases the Migration to Microsoft’s Cloud
Initially announced as XDrive during PDC 2009, Microsoft has released the beta version of Windows Azure Drive, a storage access solution simplifying the migration of Windows applications to the cloud by creating an NTFS virtual drive on top of a storage blob.
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Is OData The Ubiquitous Language For Application Collaboration?
The Open Data Protocol (OData) specification opens up possibilities to a lot of interesting collaborative use-cases and scenarios. Some of which are highlighted by Douglas Purdy, Pablo Castro and Jon Udell.
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SOA Practioners Should Define Standards First
Standards are often cited as important, helping to prevent vendor lock-in and allow for interoperability between heterogeneous implementations. However, as Steve Jones points out recently, it is still common for many SOA practitioners to ignore selecting standards at the start of the SOA lifecyle. In this article he outlines where standards should fit in and how REST is no exception to this rule.
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RESTful API Authentication Schemes
“Everyone feels the need to write a custom authentication protocol” says George Reese, which he claims is one of the things he learnt working on a programming API for cloud providers and Saas Vendors. In a post George proposes a set of standards for any REST authentication need.