Hypermedia and the future of the integration over the web

Posted on 31. Jan, 2011 by Guilherme Silveira.

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Systems integration over the web has been successfully growing in a pace incomparable to any internal company attempt to centralize its services. Those REST systems are available and consumed everywhere over the web. Yet there is one thing one can add to some of those systems that might make clients and services less bound to [...]

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JAX-RS 2.0 – How to improve it

Posted on 18. Oct, 2010 by Guilherme Silveira.

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During Javaone 2010 I was able to meet Paul Sandoz, take a deeper look into Jersey’s code, attend to a session on ideas for the the JAX-RS comittee have for the future and show some of our ideas from Vraptor 3 (server side) and Restfulie (client side). I wish JAX-RS 2 become the easiest and [...]

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Minimize coupling with REST processes

Posted on 27. May, 2010 by guilhermesilveira.

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While integrating systems, implementing access or processes is typically achieved through man ordered list of steps, where one expects specific results from the server. Expecting specific results means coupling your client to a servers behavior, something that we want to minimize. In REST clients, and in business process modeled following REST practices, we can reach [...]

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The Web and Rest (Rest from Scratch – Theory 1)

Posted on 20. May, 2010 by guilhermesilveira.

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Rest is not only about http and the web, but an architectural style derived from the web and others. In this 20 minutes video, we will see how the web has been capable of scaling, providing different services and being a more effective system than other human distributed systems alike (i.e. water distribution and electricity). [...]

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REST from scratch

Posted on 29. Apr, 2010 by Guilherme Silveira.

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This is the first post on a series of examples on how to use Rails and Restfulie on the server side and Restfulie and Mikyung on the client side to create REST based architectures. On this 10 minutes video you will learn how it is possible to make several representations of one resource available on [...]

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REST from scratch

Posted on 29. Apr, 2010 by guilhermesilveira.

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This is the first post on a series of examples on how to use Rails and Restfulie on the server side and Restfulie and Mikyung on the client side to create REST based architectures. On this 10 minutes video you will learn how it is possible to make several representations of one resource available on [...]

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Buying through REST: applying REST to the Enterprise

Posted on 19. Apr, 2010 by Guilherme Silveira.

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REST was a research result that left us with an open question, as its researcher suggested: it beautifully solves a lot of problems, but how to apply it on contemporary concerns that enterprise have? REST Applied After many talks, I have summed up a model, derived from REST constraints, that allows one to measure how [...]

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REST maturity model

Posted on 19. Apr, 2010 by Guilherme Silveira.

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Not yet REST How do we achieve REST? Leonard Richardson’s model was widely commented and Martin Fowler posted on “Rest in Practice” (a book I recommend reading). But what is left out from REST in Richardson’s model and why? According to his model, level 3 adds hypermedia support, leveraging a system through the use of [...]

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Buying through REST: applying REST to the Enterprise

Posted on 13. Apr, 2010 by guilhermesilveira.

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REST was a research result that left us with an open question, as its researcher suggested: it beautifully solves a lot of problems, but how to apply it on contemporary concerns that enterprise have? REST Applied After many talks, I have summed up a model, derived from REST constraints, that allows one to measure how [...]

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REST maturity model

Posted on 13. Apr, 2010 by guilhermesilveira.

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Not yet REST How do we achieve REST? Leonard Richardson’s model was widely commented and Martin Fowler posted on “Rest in Practice” (a book I recommend reading). But what is left out from REST in Richardson’s model and why? According to his model, level 3 adds hypermedia support, leveraging a system through the use of [...]

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