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 ...

AS WEB SERVICES move from promise to reality, developers need tools that can help them decrease the technology ramp-up time and speed up deployment to keep costs in check. A new development framework ...

He shared about the principles of REST that the developers should give everything an ID, identify and follow standard set of methods, link the resources together, multiple representations and ...

The concept of processing data via programs available on the Web in open, text-based standards is growing in popularity. Modular, able to run on the existing Web architecture, and often cost-efficient ...

As a single, easy-to-use entry point for employees, customers and business partners, portals have proved to be effective, if somewhat limited in their capabilities. Linking back-end applications to a ...

While I enjoy Jack Kapica's columns and stories on developments in the IT industry, I feel compelled to point out that there is some misleading information in the Deec. 19 piece. He wrote: "This is ...

The Web and XML have changed our perspective about what data can do. Instead of regarding data as something to be stored in a database and shuttled across existing networks by systems locked in a ...

Sun Microsystems President and COO Jonathan Schwartz discussed partner opportunities around open-source technology, Web services, service-oriented architectures (SOAs) and Java Business Integration ...