Archive for March, 2007

JSR 311 Followup

Published March 13, 2007 Tech , java , jsr311 , soa , standards , sun , webservices 2 Comments

I blogged a little while ago about the proposed JSR 311, a REST API for Java. I’ve since tried to implement the annotations and processing described by the short example on Marc’s blog.

Now I’m not going to claim that what I’ve done is comprehensive or ‘production ready’, but it proves the point. The point it proves to me is that it’s possible to design small, simple APIs that dramatically simplify application programming (and is easily and cheaply implemented).

I’ve taken a quick look at Restlets and i’m impressed… but it’s a whole new application programming model. Does anyone really want that in JavaEE?

I’ll repeat myself. I think a simple API which can easily be added to JavaEE and which simplifes writing basic REST and HTTP/POX is a good approach. Lets let the more advanced bits be an area for innovation and competition for a little while longer.

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Quiet

Published March 13, 2007 IBM , Open Source , Tech , apache , canada 0 Comments

I’ve been pretty quiet here recently, mainly because I’m rarely in front of a computer and in the mood.

I had a good time in Toronto. Saw lots of Canadians and lots of Snow. Also met lots of interesting IBMers involved in open source software (mainly Linux/Apache/Eclipse). Having not been to similar conferences, I think it was a good one. It seemed to be productive… at least for me. I left having learnt a lot which I’ll hopefully be able to pass on to some of the people I work with.

Just for the record, it’s not happened to me yet. :-)

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I’m David Illsley, I work in Web Services development at IBM Hursley, which involves work on the Apache WS Project, where I am a committer and PMC member. When not working with technology, I spend a lot of time on the backstage aspects of theatre, and a sadly decreasing amount of time reading.

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