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Using DNS for REST Web Service Discovery

Service Discovery is an essential aspect of service orientated architecture because it avoids early binding of clients to particular service instances. In this article, Jan Algermissen explains the need for discovery of RESTful services, and explains how the existing Domain Name Service (DNS) standard can be used as a widely-deployed and scalable solution.

Jan Algermissen
on May 03, 2010
How HTML5 Web Sockets Interact With Proxy Servers

Peter Lubbers makes an introduction to HTML5 Web Sockets explaining how they interact with proxy servers, and what proxy configuration or updates are needed for the Web Sockets traffic to go through.

Peter Lubbers
on Mar 16, 2010
Building FlightCaster's Frontends for the Web and Smartphones

In part two of InfoQ's interview with the FlightCaster team, we discuss scaling Rails on Heroku, the problems of integrating data from multiple providers and mobile smartphone applications.

Werner Schuster
on Sep 18, 2009
Web Development

Virtual Panel: Evolution of JavaScript Frameworks for HTML 5

In this virtual panel the creators and core developers of Dojo, YUI, Prototype, script.aculo.us, MooTools and GWT talk about the evolution of JavaScript for the new API's that are exposed with HTML 5. These API's deal with 2D drawing, drag & drop, history, media, client-side persistent storage, server-sent events and more.

Dio Synodinos
on May 08, 2009
Schema for Web Services – Part I: Basic Datatypes

Most web service developers rely on a data binding conversion layer within a web service to work directly with data structures in their programming language of choice - but this causes a number of problems. In the first of a series of articles that look at these problems, Dennis Sosnoski starts at the most basic level, looking at simple data types and the issues that arise from mapping them.

Dennis Sosnoski
on Jan 15, 2009
Contract Versioning, Compatibility and Composability

Kjell-Sverre and Jean-Jacques revisit the principles of contract design focusing on the concept of compatible contract based on XML, XML Schema and WSDL extensibility to foster service reuse and complement Governance. The article includes a novel approach to manage message types in relation to an enterprise data model.

Kjell-Sverre Jerijærvi Jean-Jacques Dubray
on Dec 09, 2008
Structured Event Streaming with Smooks

Smooks is best known for its transformation capabilities, but in this article Tom Fennelly describes how you can also use it for structured event streaming.

Tom Fennelly
on Nov 26, 2008
Flex for XML and JSON

Platforms need interoperability. In this article Flex interoperability with JSON and XML is explored. The article including mapping of XML to chart and grid components using the E4X library. It also demonstrates using the as3core library to decode JSON messages.

Jack Herrington
on Oct 12, 2008
AtomServer – The Power of Publishing for Data Distribution – Part Two

In this article, Bryon Jacob and Chris Berry continue their description of AtomServer, their implementation of a full-fledged Atom Store based on Apache Abdera. The authors have created several extensions to the AtomPub specification, among them Auto-Tagging, Batching, and Aggregate Feeds.

Chris Berry Bryon Jacob
on Sep 26, 2008
Service-Oriented Development with Consumer-Driven Contracts

In this article, Ian Robinson discusses how "consumer-driven contracts", in the form of "stories for services" and unit tests exchanged between service development streams, can strengthen the service-oriented development lifecycle. In contrast to contracts defined from the POV of the provider, consumer-driven contracts result from combining the demands of all known service consumers.

Ian Robinson
on Jul 27, 2008
Rationalizing the Presentation Tier

Thin client paradigm characterized by web applications is a kludge that needs to be repudiated. Old compromises are no longer needed and it's time to move the presentation tier to where it belongs. In this article, Ganesh Prasad and Peter Svensson explains how and why.

Ganesh Prasad Peter Svensson
on Jul 04, 2008
AtomServer – The Power of Publishing for Data Distribution

In this article, Bryon Jacob and Chris Berry introduce AtomServer, their implementation of a full-fledged Atom Store based on Apache Abdera. The authors spent the last year implementing an Atom Store for Homeaway, their employer, and are mnow making the Atom Store framework available as open source.

Chris Berry Bryon Jacob
on Jul 02, 2008