Collaborative Consulting

Jeremy Deane of Collaborative Consulting will be speaking at Boston Tech Professionals Group January 22, 2009 at 6:00pm. The meeting takes place at 230 Third Ave,1st Floor Atrium, Waltham MA.

 

An increasing industry backlash to the mounting complexity of the WS-* SOAP specifications is resulting in many organizations considering RESTful Web Services. In fact, a recent poll by Information Week found that 58% of IT professionals believed that SOA introduced more complexity and resulted in cost overruns. Some industry pundits, such as Tim Bray echo this sentiment declaring WS-* an embarrassing failure.

So why turn to REST?

REST or Representational State Transfer is based on a small set of widely-accepted standards such as Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP), Uniform Resource Identifier (URI), and Extensible Markup Language (XML). REST requires far fewer development steps, toolkits, and execution engines than SOAP. Many organizations have implemented mission critical systems using this simple architectural style including Amazon S3, Flickr, and Overstock.

In this session I will cover some of the key concepts behind REST and walk through the process of designing, implementing and testing RESTful web services. The session will reference a fictional web application exposing a set of RESTful web services for managing facilities (e.g. adding rooms to a building).

 

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