Hello CJUG,
Below is this month's presentation information. The presentation will be held at Loyola';s Downtown campus.
Give It a REST by Brian Sletten
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.
We will look at getting started with the Restlet
API, using conventional containers and advanced environments like
NetKernel to build scalable REST-oriented systems.
Bio:
Brian Sletten is a liberal arts-educated software engineer with a
focus on forward-leaning technologies. He has a background as a system
architect, a developer, a mentor and a trainer. His experience has
spanned defense, finance and commercial domains with security
consulting, network matrix switch controls, 3D
simulation/visualization, Grid Computing, P2P and Semantic Web-based
systems. He has a B.S. in Computer Science from the College of William
and Mary and currently lives in Fairfax, VA. He is a partner in Zepheira, LLC,
a new services company focused on using semantic-oriented technologies
to solve architectural and data integration problems not handled by
conventional tools and techniques
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