If you want to build lightweight, fast, REST APIs, or provide server support for AJAX-intense Rich Internet Applications such as Gmail, or develop scalable systems that can support thousands of ...

Open source projects are emerging to further software development practices based on RESTful APIs, which are becoming more instrumental in providing app back-end services and other functionality. To ...

Without an occasional flash of subversive literature, corporate inertia and the superior political skills of the world’s idea-squashers would have turned the world of networks and computers into a ...

RESTful Web services play important role in distributed web applications. Performance of Web services affects overall performance of applications. Using features of REST, HTTP, and the REST frameworks ...

Java Standard Edition (SE) 6 included support for Web services. This post begins a four-part series on Web services in Java SE by explaining what Web services are and overviewing Java SE’s support for ...

Currently, I think that RESTful APIs are extremely interesting but seldom mentioned in association with simple web applications such as the ones that I will work on, and, therefore, going for a ...

The .NET Framework gives you three different ways to call a Web Service. However, depending on your scenario, the latest and greatest object isn’t necessarily your best choice. If you’re going to call ...