October 24th, 2009 | by akoelewijn | published in open standards, soa
Stefan Tilkov blogged on the recently created SOA manifesto. He’s a big proponent of using REST(ful HTTP) for achieving SOA goals. One of the reactions he got on a previous post on this topic states that REST and SOA are incompatible, as REST is not about services but about resources or documents (with a standardized [...]
April 20th, 2009 | by akoelewijn | published in open standards, soa
I just uploaded the slides of our JSpring presentation to slideshare: “REST, het internet als database“.
Like most of my presentations, there’s not much text on the slides, so i’ll summarize here:
We start with one slide of JAX-RS code, just to mention that we’re not going to talk about code.
Next, we mention Stefan Tilkovs summary of [...]
March 13th, 2009 | by akoelewijn | published in web
I just watched this presentation by Tim Berners-Lee on linked data where he’s basically requesting everybody to turn the internet into one big database: RAW DATA NOW! He wants everybody to publish data on the internet, not just documents and applications. Being able to access raw data, without an application shielding it, and limiting your [...]
February 16th, 2009 | by akoelewijn | published in software development
In a response to Is the Relational Database Doomed, and my post REST is a distributed data model, Anders Nawroth wrote an interesting post, The future of RDBMS’s, which made me think about the role of databases.
Anders makes the statement that RDBMSes aren’t very good at storing relationships. He points out that there are better [...]
February 12th, 2009 | by akoelewijn | published in open standards, soa
I’m sure some will not agree with my statement, and some will think, duh, that’s so obvious, but i think this needs to be said: REST is a distributed data model.
REST is not a simplified way to implement Web Services. It’s also not a way to call Remote Procedures with a Javascript friendly syntax.
Let’s look [...]
December 15th, 2008 | by akoelewijn | published in open standards, soa
I think the most important feature of the web is the fact that it’s based on open standards, so everybody can participate. It brings the whole world together. But another and just as important feature of the web is that all the information is out in the open, and linked together using hyperlinks. This enables [...]
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