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25 July 2006

Java on Rails? Trails: What it is (and isn’t)

Much to-do has been made recently about Rails, and the productivity gains that are to be had from the infrastructure it provides. Listed among these gains comes a productivity boost that can be had from the embracing of a Domain Driven Development approach, whereby the developer concentrates on the Domain model and the framework (in [...]

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20 July 2006

Developing RESTful Web Services in Java

When you think of Web services, SOAP immediately comes to your mind. Not any more! Thanks to REST, there is a simpler way to develop web services. While SOAP is well established with most vendors supporting it, REST is really catching up.
Representational State Transfer (REST) is an architectural style for distributed hypermedia systems. REST relies [...]

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