The debate about REST (REpresentational State Transfer) as an alternative to SOAP has been going on for several years now - with more and more respect for the REST point of view in the recent past. While many will agree that a RESTful approach is a better match for Web 2.0-style, public-facing Internet services, it's still often questioned how REST could be applied to 'Enterprise' scenarios. This talk will briefly summarize the REST principles behind the Web's architecture, and then show how an enterprise scenario can benefit from the properties that have made the Web a success.
Stefan Tilkov is co-founder and a prinicipal consultant at innoQ, a consulting firm with offices in Germany and Switzerland. Stefan focuses on enterprise architecture consulting for Fortune 1000 companies, which currently translates to assessing SOA maturity and deriving appropriate steps for a road map towards a service-oriented enterprise.
JSR 311 - JAX-RS The Java API for RESTful Web Services— This API will enable developers to rapidly build Web applications in Java that are characteristic of the best designed parts of the Web. This JSR will develop an API for providing REST(Representational State Transfer) support in the Java Platform. Lightweight, RESTful approaches are emerging as a popular alternative to SOAP-based technologies for deployment of services on the internet.
A little REST and Relaxation— As one of the first modern Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1) architects, co-author of internet standards for HTTP and Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI), as well as the founder of various Open Source software projects,amongst others, the Apache HTTP server project, his name is intrinsically tied to the development of the World Wide Web infrastructure. In his keynote address, Roy T. Fielding will pursue the question of how individual Java applets can be replaced by friendlier Web application delivery interfaces.
SOA lite— In this talk you'll see how to apply SOA in a more agile fashion to allow small and mid-sized enterprises to gain the benefits of flexible service components without the governance overhead often associated with SOA.
REST - The Better Web Services Model— The presentation will introduce the principles of REST (REpresentational State Transfer), the Web's architecture, and address how to map advanced enterprise scenarios to an architecture that uses HTTP and the Web instead of abusing it.
