Blogging at the speed of thought

The central API for accessing RESTful services in Spring 3 is RestTemplate. It is like any other template mechanism provided by Spring for the client side access. The default implementation uses the java.net package for creating HTTP requests. RestTemplate can be backed by Commons HttpClient using ClientHttpRequestFactory. Using Commons HttpClient as the backend implementation supports [...]

Jersey 1.0.3 was released this week. This release has quite a few interesting new features and improvements to some of its existing functionality. Paul’s blog entry gives the specifics of this release. One of the cool features in this release is the ability to inject WadlApplicationContext in resources. This provides access to the WADL JAXB [...]

I was playing with CXF 2.2 over the weekend. I would like to share my experience in building a simple blogger service using CXF which provides seamless access to SOAP and REST web services. You would soon realize how services design and development has become easier with this new CXF release. Lets dive into the [...]

I have been waiting for this release for quite some time mainly because it fully supports JSR 311 API and its very own Client API. It could become one stop solution for developers building and deploying SOAP & REST web services. Major features of this release include : ~ JAX-RS 1.0 support ~ WS-SecurityPolicy support [...]

Tony Printezis provided some insight into G1 in JavaOne last year. Now, we can see G1 in action with the latest JDK 6 builds. HotSpot JVM features this new collection mechanism in the recent Java SE update 14 early access builds (since b02). It is not enabled by default as this is still an experimental [...]

Sergey recently implemented multipart support for CXF JAXRS implementation which is available in 2.2-SNAPSHOT. He talks more about the feature in his blog here. It certainly provides a simpler programming model like any other CXF frontends, which I always liked with the CXF project and prime reason for its growing popularity among developers. It supports [...]

Support for 64-bit Java plug-in finally available with Update 12 early access. This feature request was a 4 year old RFE in Sun’s bug database. I just installed this plug-in on my 64-bit vista. Its nice to see your 64-bit browsers verify Java by clicking here. Sun is planning to open source Java Web Start [...]

LoanDB is a loan originations system reference implementation. This project will be developed using Java technology frameworks such as Spring (Web Beans in future?), Hibernate (JPA), CXF (JAXWS) and Jersey (JAXRS). The concepts are based on my original toy implementation for the loan processing NetBeans tutorial. The tutorial was primarily focused on developing JPA and [...]

Multipart API in Jersey was made available by Craig in the recent 1.0.1 release. This API provides a simple mechanism to read and write body parts from within a restful application. Lets walk through a simple project resource which processes two parts, one JAXB bean and other an image. Add the following jersey maven dependencies [...]

Spring Framework 3.0 M1 was released last week during the SpringOne Americas event, which looks very promising with EL and REST becoming top themes. Lot of coverage on the event has been blogged, and you can find one of my favorite entry by Solomon here. Juergen outlines some of the new features implemented in this [...]