** Chicago Java Users Group/Downtown meets Tuesday,
March 18 **
** 3rd Tuesday of the month
**
Don't miss this opportunity to see one of the
high-quality No Fluff Just Stuff presenters for FREE!
TOPIC: Give it a REST!
SPEAKER: Brian Sletten, No Fluff Just Stuff
presenter
SPONSOR:
Great
Lakes Software Symposium
www.nofluffjuststuff.com
FREE STUFF!
We
will raffle off one license for IntelliJ IDEA 7.0, courtesy of JetBrains.
WHEN: Tuesday, March 18
6:00 - pizza/networking
6:30 -
presentation
WHERE:
Loyola
University of Chicago
Lewis Towers, 13th
Floor Ballroom (Beane Hall)
820 N. Michigan
Ave (entrance on Pearson)
Chicago, IL
60611
http://tinyurl.com/2vsrov
RSVP:
Please RSVP
so that we can order enough food.
http://www.cjug.org/uger/event/show/29
DESCRIPTION:
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.
SPEAKER 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.
Brian is a No Fluff Just Stuff software symposium
presenter.
MORE INFO:
http://www.cjug.org/Wiki.jsp?page=2008.03.18.downtown
We hope you can join us,
The CJUG Board
www.cjug.org
