REST is one of the most influential ideas in distributed architecture. Here's why it matters and how to understand RESTful services in theory and practice. REST, or Representational State Transfer, is ...

Many of you know me as one half of the ZapThink team – an advisor, analyst, sometimes-trainer, and pundit that has been focused on XML, web services, service oriented architecture (SO A), and now ...

While SOAP-based web services form the backbone of most legacy web service implementations, RESTful APIs have become the de facto standard for cloud-native microservices development. In this ...

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Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with content, and download exclusive resources. Dany Lepage discusses the architectural ...

As the World Wide Web is becoming a communication and collaboration platform, there is an acute need for an infrastructure to disseminate real-time events over the Web. However, such infrastructure is ...

Every day more businesses migrate towards the web. They offer on-line support for their clients. This support translated in web pages must be linked with the companies’ data servers. The solution for ...

A popular tutorial on how to create REST web services with Eclipse and the TomEE Plus application server regrettably caused some confusion. A number of readers tried to deploy the application to a ...

Remember the heyday of Web services, when we were always just one specification away from perfect interoperability? Ultimately, that towering stack of protocols collapsed under its own weight. SOAP ...

ASP.NET Core allows you to create Web Services based on gRPC ... which raises two questions: "What is gRPC?" and "Does it ever make sense to use it?" Here are Peter's answers. If you're working with ...