A bit of rest always helps. We have to seize every opportunity to pause and reflect on where we’ve been before making new plans to move forward. In the topsy-turvy world of SOA (Service-Oriented ...

In the ongoing contention between SOAP and REST as a Web services protocol, many developers appear to drawn to REST. The latest release of Ruby on Rails, the lightweight development framework which ...

Every day more businesses migrate towards the web. They offer on-line support for their clients. This support translated in web pages must be linked with the companies’ data servers. The solution for ...

REST is one of the most influential ideas in distributed architecture. Here's why it matters and how to understand RESTful services in theory and practice. REST, or Representational State Transfer, is ...

Many Java professionals are interested in learning the basics about RESTful Web services, but they often find tutorials that are overly complicated. In this quick tip, we’re going right back to the ...

Remember the heyday of Web services, when we were always just one specification away from perfect interoperability? Ultimately, that towering stack of protocols collapsed under its own weight. SOAP ...