In two of our previous blogs we talked about the four different types of HTTP requests that are important when working with RESTful Web Services.  In this blog I’d like to take a closer look…

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BTI has just released part two in a series of screencasts introducing the audience to the RESTful capabilities of the Spring Framework. Part 2 introduces the ability to make GET requests to our RESTful web…

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BTI has just released part one in a series of screencasts introducing the audience to the RESTful capabilities of the Spring Framework. The source code used in the screencast is available at http://bti360.googlecode.com, under screencasts/SpringDictionaryService.

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The subject of media types has been glossed over in some of our recent blogs and screencasts.  In this blog I’d like to focus on what media types are and give some basic guidelines for…

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Hypermedia as the engine of application state.  Wow, that’s a mouthful.  Many people shorten the phrase to HATEOAS, which is only slightly less of a mouthful (or keyboardful), but it’s what we’ve got.  HATEOAS is…

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Client: “I want JSON.” Server: “Silly client, you think it’s going to be that easy? If you ever want to see JSON alive again, you’re going to have to give me one million dollars.” Client:…

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Now that Topher figured out how to make an HTTP request to a RESTful Web Service, he needs to know all about resources and representations. Resources are the objects that a web services exposes to…

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