A couple of weeks ago, I presented REST to the IT staff in the London division of a major US investment bank. Out of something like 100 people, only a small number of people had ever heard of REST.

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 ...

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There has been some subterranean discussion in the content management standards arena about what is the best way to support the interoperability of content services with applications. Should vendors ...

Project Jersey is the reference implementation of JSR 311 (“The Java API for RESTful Web Services“). The main page states that Jersey is currently available as an “early access” version and cannot ...

While many people pay careful attention to the design of their living rooms, Niki Leondakis, president and chief operating officer of Kimpton Hotels & Restaurants, believes the style of a bedroom is ...

I'm having a little-bit of confusion properly understanding how WCF services generate there XML (or JSON) payload for POST RESTful services. I have such a service that I wrote, and depending on the ...