Blogging at the speed of thought

Today, Paul announced in his blog about the availability of Jersey 1.0. I have been waiting for this release like many others. The Jersey team delivered a pretty solid implementation and this implementation has been tested by the user community to a greater extent. This project can be considered as a blueprint for similar JSR [...]

Yahoo Search provides a RESTful interface for web search. Of course this service is been there for a while. I was just curious to use Jersey Client to play around with the Yahoo REST service. It opens up a world of possibilities for building applications around these services in Java. Let us invoke the web [...]

It has been a wonderful week with my ramblings with CXF and SSL. But, it all ended up in good mood. Sometimes, it is so hard to find how to use certain features with CXF. I am a great fan of CXF because of its simplicity and intuitive feature set. It provides an array of [...]

For those who missed JavaOne this year, Sun has published the conference slides here a month later. I find these very useful especially for Java geeks as it provides an opportunity to learn some of the technical advancements around the Java platform and the momentum around the technology is healthy. My top contenders this year [...]

In my earlier blog entry on Jersey, I used HTTPClient API and curl command line utility as the clients. I had not mentioned about the Jersey Client API. It is part of the Jersey distribution. I would prefer using Jersey Client API as it is modeled around the concepts of JAX-RS spec. Let us quickly [...]

Jersey is a JSR 311 reference implementation for the JAX-RS spec (The Java API for RESTful Web Services). The JSR development is nearing its completion, but for most part the RI is stable enough for developers to start playing with RESTful services. JAX-RS is an elegant API built around the powerful REST architecture and modeled [...]

Message brokering markets were once dominated by heavy weights and required huge investments by enterprises for implementing such solutions. Vendors made huge bucks out of it by selling such solutions and support. Is this still considered a niche market? I personally don’t think so. I am definitely not against vendors offering such solutions, but the [...]

Effective Java second edition finally started shipping this week. I dreamed of this day in one of my earlier blog post As predicted, it finally made it this year during JavaOne. Even this year, Joshua had a session on “More ‘Effective Java’” – third in a row since 2006. The book was published on May [...]

Apache CXF is an open services framework. It is more than just a Web Services stack. Its simple, powerful, and promising. Today, the CXF project graduated from incubation as a top-level Apache project. It has made several stable releases since its incubation. I know projects which still prefer to use first generation Axis due to [...]

Effective Java Second Edition slips to ship in 2007, though Ted originally predicted in his 2006 Tech predictions. Finally, it is likely to be released around the time frame of Java One 2008 in May. I hope that Joshua does not change his original 2007 title “Effective Java: This Time It’s for Real” in JavaOne [...]