Adobe XMP Packet Extraction for the Aperture Framework
When it comes to manipulating photographs, I live in Photoshop. One feature of all Adobe products that I like is the ability to annotate images and other documents using their eXtensible Metadata Platform, or XMP. XMP is a collection of…
You can’t do anything “over REST”
Sometimes, you can let things slide, but there are other time when terms are just used so incorrectly that it has to be called out. One thing that always gets me is the gross misuse of the term REST. For…
Semantic Web research publications need to be more “webbish”
Over the past few weeks, I’ve been taking a deep dive into the Semantic Web. As some will tell you, a number of scalability and performance issues with the Semantic Frameworks have not been fully addressed. While true to some…
RESTEasy and Seam
There has been some discussion lately regarding integrating JBoss Seam with RESTEasy. Jay Balunas recently made about post on his thoughts on ths subject, so I thought I’d post some of mine. For the record, I am a huge fan…
Announcing JBoss RESTEasy Beta1
In case you didn’t see Bill’s post on the subject, I wanted to let folks know that RESTEasy entered it’s first beta release as JBoss RESTEasy Beta 1. You can read more here and you can get the release here.
URI vs. URL Post Corrected
Thanks to several commenter’s who pointed out several issues with in my URI vs. URL post, I have made several revisions that post to be more correct. If you happen to be linking to that post, or citing comments from…
URI vs. URL: What’s the Difference?
Updated (1/18/2011): Because there’s still a lot of confusion, I’ve created a third post that attempts to resolve a lot of the questions from the comments on the last two posts. The new post is here. Updated (8/27/2009): I’ve created another…
Not enough is RESTful in RestFaces
I just came across a quick article on The Server Side about a JSF framework called RESTFaces. My initial reaction was “oh cool, a JSF framework that might adhere to RESTful principals.” Sadly, there isn’t much more than HTTP GET…
Goals for RESTEasy 1.0
As I’m reevaluating and retooling RESTEasy, I’m thinking about what it is going to take to reach 1.0. At a high-level, RESTEasy will provide: A Server side API as a JAX-RS Implementation A Client API similar to what I described…
Some thoughts on a JAX-RS client API
Bill Burke has just posted a bunch of really great feedback on the latest draft of the JAX-RS spec. If you haven’t had a chance to look at the spec, head over here. One thing that JSR-311 had initially chosen…
