July 11, 2012 8:28 PM
Posted by: Jack Vaughan
API,
middleware,
Mobile device development,
RESTAn odd phenomenon these days is the consumerization of IT, which WhatIs describes as the “blending of personal and business use of technology devices and applications.”...
May 2, 2012 2:48 AM
Posted by: Jack Vaughan
IBM,
REST,
SOASOA has been used for application transformation for several years - now SOA itself is undergoing a transformation. At IBM Impact 2012, IBM Application and Integration Middleware General Manager Marie Wieck went so far as to dub the transformation “SOA 3.0.” She was not alone among IBM leaders...
November 17, 2011 5:31 PM
Posted by: Jack Vaughan
Cloud Services,
middleware,
Mobile device development,
RESTWe spoke with Apigee's Sam Ramji recently. He and the company, which focuses on API products for enterprises and developers, find themselves among those at the center of one of the rising trends in...
January 7, 2010 8:45 PM
Posted by: Jack Vaughan
Ajax,
RESTJoe McKendrick has an interesting post about a cool new schema. It relates to JSON, and is meant to give JSON apps data handling capabilities that are a bit more robust.
October 28, 2009 8:41 PM
Posted by: Jack Vaughan
cloud computing,
RESTBefore there was cloud computing, there was grid computing. Instead of sending your jobs to the cloud, you’d send them to the grid. Instead of provisioning big banks of on-premise computers to do your calculations, you’d send them to the grid.
March 18, 2009 1:25 PM
Posted by: Jack Vaughan
RESTWeb services followed on the first flush of Java in the late 1990s. They might have been called something else. ‘Services’ made a certain sense because the term ably conveyed a difference from then-reigning object technology. People were ready for the services part. People understood that a...
December 29, 2008 4:53 PM
Posted by: Jack Vaughan
Microsoft,
RESTMicroformats have been described as a set open data format standards for structured blogging and web content publishing. They have been tried out, for example, in the realm of XHTML. One tenet of the microformat movement has been to try to work with existing architectures and patterns, sometimes...
October 31, 2008 5:50 PM
Posted by: Heather Clancy
.NET,
cloud computing,
Composite applications,
Development,
Microsoft,
Modeling,
REST,
SOA,
SOA developmentFor Microsoft there seemed to be a somewhat humbler tone at its Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles this past week. Even the biggest new SOA modeling and Cloud Computing initiatives were described as “nascent” works in progress and subject to change.
April 21, 2008 11:12 AM
Posted by: StorageSwiss
Composite applications,
REST,
rich Internet applications (RIA),
SaaS,
SOA,
Web 2.0A lot of analysts I respect have been pushing the concept of Web-oriented architecture, or WOA, of late. For those unfamiliar with the term, Dion Hinchcliffe has covered it extensively and Dana Gardner has been
