Tuesday March 18, 2008 06:00 PM
(America - Chicago)
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Loyola University of Chicago
820 N Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Lewis Towers 13th floor ballroom (Beane Hall)
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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.