The REST paradigm can be a natural fit for microservices architectures, but it also presents potential challenges for development teams. Continue Reading ...

Many of you know me as one half of the ZapThink team – an advisor, analyst, sometimes-trainer, and pundit that has been focused on XML, web services, service oriented architecture (SO A), and now ...

Ruby on Rails 2.0, a planned upgrade to the open-source Web framework, will feature REST (Representational State Transfer) as its preferred choice for Web services, the developer of the framework, ...

Version 2.0 of Ruby on Rails, the popular open-source Web application development framework, was released Friday morning, according to the developer of the framework, David Heinemeier Hansson. Key to ...

Ruby on Rails 2.0, a planned upgrade to the open-source Web framework, will feature Representational State Transfer (REST) as its preferred choice for Web services, the developer of the framework, ...

If you want to build lightweight, fast, REST APIs, or provide server support for AJAX-intense Rich Internet Applications such as Gmail, or develop scalable systems that can support thousands of ...

In an interview with InfoWorld’s Paul Krill at OSCON in July, Tim Bray of Sun, the co-inventor of XML, branded the SOAP stack for XML Web services “a failure.” SOAP is of course based on XML, and the ...

Consuming services is something every application needs to do. In this article, Nick demonstrates how to document a REST service using Swagger in order to make it easy to consume from a Universal ...

While SOAP and REST based web and integration services are ideal for organizations that are flush with racks of servers and blessed with an army talented software developers, a good enterprise ...