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Give it a REST



REST Programming for Java Developers

As developers, we sometimes get to make choices about the
technologies we use, sometimes not. We base these decisions on
personal experiences, recommendations from others and a general
sense of where the industry is going. Web Services have been all
the rage for several years now. We have been told time and again
that we should be building systems around them; as an industry,
we've never been more confused. Perhaps it is time to Give
it a REST.



Part of the problem with the conventional Web Services technology
stack is that it is more complex than it needs to be for small to
medium-sized systems. All of the examples show how simple it all
is, but how often do we really need to check the temperature or get
a stock quotation? Real systems that are built out of these
technologies are rapidly spiraling toward incomprehensibility,
unmaintainability and (shocker) insecurity! SOAP has a place, but
so does REST, a simpler architectural style for invoking services
in a language- and platform- independent way. This talk will
motivate REST, explain how it fits in to other Enterprise and Web
technologies and help give you some ammo for suggesting that your
organization give it a REST too.



This talk should be accessible to everyone but is probably
intermediate level.

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