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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Contextual links in hypermedia content

Posted on 23. Feb, 2010 by guilhermesilveira.

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Because resource meta data is sent through http headers on the human web we usually try to think it should be done in the same way in the RESTful web. With the overall public acceptance of the Link header, I started to worry that some of the meta data that was important to dynamic resources [...]

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Contextual links in hypermedia content

Posted on 23. Feb, 2010 by Guilherme Silveira.

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Because resource meta data is sent through http headers on the human web we usually try to think it should be done in the same way in the RESTful web. With the overall public acceptance of the Link header, I started to worry that some of the meta data that was important to dynamic resources [...]

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Restfulie at RailsConf 2010

Posted on 22. Feb, 2010 by guilhermesilveira.

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Fabio Akita, from Locaweb, is presenting a session on Restfulie and becoming truly REST in Rails. With the help of Caue Guerra, George Guimarães, and many others, Restfulie is growing and implementing new features that we still expect from REST client apis. For those who are going to RailsConf this year and want to create [...]

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REST is crawling: early binding and the web without hypermedia

Posted on 22. Feb, 2010 by Guilherme Silveira.

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The most frequently asked question about REST in any presentation: why hypermedia is so important to our machine to machine software? Is not early binding through fixed URI’s and using http verbs, headers and response codes better than what we have been doing earlier? An approach that makes real use of all http verbs, http [...]

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REST is crawling: early binding and the web without hypermedia

Posted on 07. Feb, 2010 by guilhermesilveira.

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The most frequently asked question about REST in any presentation: why hypermedia is so important to our machine to machine software? Is not early binding through fixed URI’s and using http verbs, headers and response codes better than what we have been doing earlier? An approach that makes real use of all http verbs, http [...]

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Quit pretending, use the web for real: the c# client

Posted on 14. Jan, 2010 by guilhermesilveira.

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The first post of the ‘Quit pretending, use the web for real‘ was on how one could use Restfulie for Rails to leverage its application, the second one described the same approach for a Java client and server implementation using VRaptor. This third post is a short description/annnouncement of the Restfulie C# client which has [...]

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Restfulie 0.5, atom feeds, content negotiation and default controllers

Posted on 07. Jan, 2010 by guilhermesilveira.

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ATOM FEED Restfulie 0.5.0 is out and its major new feature is its support to Atom feeds with variable media types. A feed can be easily rendered by invoking the to_atom method: @hotels = Hotel.all render :content_type => ‘application/atom+xml’, :text => @hotels.to_atom(:title=>’Hotels’, :controller => self) A collection might contain entries with different media types and [...]

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Transactions do not exist in a Restful world…

Posted on 17. Dec, 2009 by guilhermesilveira.

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Due to the last posts on infoq related to Restfulie, my work at Caelum Objects involved a presentation at one client, “Beginning a REST initiative” (based on Ian’s work) and the question came up: “but how do I control transactions without a custom software stack to help me?” The answer was, “you do not need [...]

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Hypermedia and dynamic contracts: let my bandwidth rest!

Posted on 10. Dec, 2009 by guilhermesilveira.

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“Break it” to scale! Many systems contain webpages that are very similar to user “custom pages”, where they can configure what they want to see, and every piece is aggregated from different sources into one single page. In some cases, those are widget based frameworks as wicket and gwt that can be added to my [...]

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