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Road to REST
Rickard Oberg explains how to expose use-cases to solve the linking problem in RESTful APIs, and how this will simplify both API development, documentation, as well as client development.
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Generic Hypermedia and Domain-Specific APIs: RESTing in the ALPS
Mike Amundsen describes the ALPS standard, a way to define the data and workflow details for a Web application and apply these details consistently regardless of the media type in use.
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Dropwizard: Make Features, Not WAR
Ryan Kennedy introduces Dropwizard which is Yammer's framework for building RESTful web services on the JVM.
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OpenStack Extensions: Challenges and Lessons Learned in the Development and Governance of Extensible REST Services
Jorge Williams shares some of the challenges and lessons learned while adding extensions to OpenStack.
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Transactions: Over Used or Just Misunderstood?
Mark Little provides advice on when it is not recommended to use transactions and how to use transactions with Web Services, NoSQL, REST and mobile infrastructures.
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Spring Data REST: Easily Export JPA Entities Directly to the Web
Jon Brisbin explains how to expose JPA entities via the Spring Data Repository abstraction and then exporting them to HTTP using Spring Data REST.
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Test-Driven Web APIs
Ian Robinson discusses creating test-driven, resource-oriented and hypermedia-based web APIs, and constructing clients for consuming them.
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Designing a REST-ful API Using Spring 3
Ben Hale explains how to design and test a RESTful API with Spring MVC, providing an example of a simple game application showing the design principles used.
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Designing Composite Services Using BPMN 2.0 as a Visual Programming Language
Lloyd Dugan discusses using the BPMN visual programming language for designing composite services and service orchestration.
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Building Cloudy Services
Anne Thomas Manes discusses principles for designing cloud-aware services: Latency Aware, Instrumented, Failure Aware, Event Driven, Parallelizable, Resource Consumption Aware, Automated.
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Transactions for the REST of Us
Cesare Pautasso and Guy Pardon propose a way of implementing transactions over HTTP using REST and the Try-Confirm/Cancel protocol.
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Architecting a RESTful Cloud - The Key to Elasticity
Jason Bloomberg explains the architectural requirements for Cloud-based applications and how REST can be used to achieve elasticity in the cloud.