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Jakarta EE 11 Delivers One New Specification, 16 Updated Specifications and Modernized TCK
Although a full GA release of Jakarta EE 11 was originally planned for July 2024, only the Core Profile and the Web Profile were delivered in December 2024 and April 2025, respectively. And now, the Jakarta EE 11 Platform has been delivered featuring one new specification and a new TCK. Ed Burns, release coordinator for Jakarta EE 11, spoke to InfoQ about the release of Jakarta EE 11.
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Spring Release Versions 3.0.4 and 2.4.3 of Spring Web Services
Spring has released two versions of their Web Services project at the same time: version 3.0.4.RELEASE as the main branch of development, and version 2.4.3.RELEASE for maintenance. Both versions have been upgraded to run on Spring Framework 5.1.0 and to support Java 11.
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Java API for RESTful Web Services 2.1 Released
Java API for RESTful Web Services JAX-RS 2.1 was released, with support for server-sent events, JSON-B, improved support for JSON-P, and a reactive extension to the client API.
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Experiences Working with Real World Distributed Systems
We live in a distributed world, but that doesn’t mean we have to tackle every single problem that comes along with that. We only need to tackle those that really need to be solved; develop a sense of where value lies in your business and where it’s reasonable to take risks. This will make building distributed systems much easier, Camille Fournier claimed, when interviewed by Stefan Tilkov.
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Twitter Diffy Spots Bugs in Services by Comparing the Responses
Twitter has open sourced Diffy, an automated testing tool used in production for discovering potential bugs in new code running on Apache Trift and other HTTP-based services.
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Udi Dahan on Defining Service Boundaries
Udi Dahan, a SOA consultant, held the presentation Finding Service Boundaries – Illustrated in Healthcare at NDC London 2014, providing advice on establishing the service boundaries in a SOA or microservice architecture.
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Martin Thompson Discusses the Reactive Manifesto 2.0
The second version of the Reactive Manifesto was announced at September's GOTO conference in Aarhus. Martin Thompson discusses the need for a revised version of the Manifesto and what its changes mean for the burgeoning reactive community.
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RESTful Web Services Framework Jersey 2.5 Released
The RESTful Web Services Framework Jersey 2.5 was recently released, bringing support for the latest version of Jetty web server, an upgrade of the Apache Connector and numerous defects corrected. Features added in earlier releases, after the major 2.0 release in June, include support for OAuth and Spring 3.
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The Costs of Versioning an API
Versioning of services is something which has been a cornerstone problem of SOA. There are many examples over the years of experiences gained and shared, but little in the way of concretely comparing and contrasting different approaches. Jean-Jacques Dubray has written about the experiences of his team in this area and some equations they have developed to try to illustrate the differences.
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Experiences Versioning a RESTful Service
Use server driven content negotiation, but enhance the response with links to alternate versions and formats of the representation, thus letting the client choose which URIs to follow due to its needs Howard Dierking recently wrote when comparing his newly gained experiences working with designing the next major revision of the NuGet API, V3, with his thoughts almost a year ago.
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RESTful Web Services Framework Jersey 2.0 Released, Implementing JAX-RS 2.0 Specification
Final version of the RESTful Web Services Framework Jersey 2.0 was recently released. New features includes a Client API, Hypermedia support, Filters and interceptors, and support for asynchronous Clients and Services. Jersey 2.0 is a reference implementation of the JAX-RS 2.0 API Specification, (JSR 339), released late May.
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WSO2 API Manager 1.4.0 Introduces Multi-Tenancy
The latest WSO2 API Manager adds native multi-tenancy, automatic generation of API documentation, and SAML-based SSO, running both on servers or in the cloud.
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What Are The Drawbacks Of REST?
A recent posting on a REST Architects list has prompted Ganesh Prasad to outline some problems that he sees with REST (over HTTP) in terms of more dynamic peer-to-peer environments and how they could be addressed. He suggests some lessons could be learned from Web Services and mentions an Internet Draft specification which he has been working on.
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Layer 7 to be Merged with SiteMinder
Layer 7 Technologies has just been acquired by CA Technologies for the purpose of augmenting CA SiteMinder with Layer 7’s API Management & Security Suite. Layer 7 specializes in adding “access, security, SLA and management features” to existing service APIs.
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ServiceStack Crosses 100 Contributors
ServiceStack is an Open Source .NET and Mono Framework that provides a strong alternative to WCF, MVC and Web API for building Web Services and Applications. The project team recently announced that they crossed 100 contributors milestone. We take this opportunity to dig further.