Restlet’s roots In an effort to address some of the technical issues involved in doing REST with Java, Jérome Louvel, a French software consultant, sought to create a framework that would provide a ...

A REST API (short for Representational State Transfer Application Programming Interface) is a way two separate pieces of ...

Part 2 of this four-part series on Java SE Web services showed how to use the JAX-WS API to develop SOAP-based Web services. JAX-WS also supports RESTful-based Web services, which this article shows ...

One of the key strengths of REST is its simplicity, but that simplicity sometimes raises objections from developers who question whether such a simple approach to application integration can deal with ...