In case you didn’t see Bill’s post on the subject, I wanted to let folks know that RESTEasy entered it’s first beta release as JBoss RESTEasy Beta 1. You can read more here and you can get the release here.

This weekend I decided to give Leopard a shot and so far, so good. However, if you’re an Eclipse fan you will be disappointed. I should also add folks who use ANY Eclipse-based product including Flex Builder 3 Beta 2 and apparently Zend Neon as well, according to the commenter’s over at The Job of [...]

Thanks to several commenter’s who pointed out several issues with in my URI vs. URL post, I have made several revisions that post to be more correct. If you happen to be linking to that post, or citing comments from it in a post of your own, you may want update it.

What is the difference between a URL and URI and why does it matter? This topic is confusing to some (myself included) and I thought I’d share my understanding of the two concepts. I’m hoping this post will give you a better understanding about how the two differ and why it matters to some.
Note: The [...]

For the misinformed, there is no re-release of of the Java 6 preview on the ADC site. This “preview release 6″ merely updates Java 5. 1.5.0_13 and Java 1.4 to 1.4.2_16. Basically, it brings Java in Tiger up to he same versions that is in Leopard.

I just came across a quick article on The Server Side about a JSF framework called RESTFaces. My initial reaction was “oh cool, a JSF framework that might adhere to RESTful principals.” Sadly, there isn’t much more than HTTP GET support that is “RESTful” about RESTFaces. RESTFaces touts itself as being a
RESTfaces for JavaServer™ Faces [...]

By all appearances, the initial release of Mac OS X Leopard will not include Java 6. Java 5 will still be there and include all of the 64-bit goodness that we’ve been reading about. Considering that Java 6 is not listed as one of the 300+ new features it’s a good indicator that it won’t [...]

Even though Java is not listed as one of the 300+ new features, Java is listed as one of the “Key Technologies” listed under the tech specs for Leopard. Additionally, the development tools section also states that Leopard will include:
“Complete Java JDK, including javac, javadoc, ANT, and Maen tools “
Whatever “Maen” is [...]

So Apple has put out a page highlighting the 300+ new features Leopard will have. As I scan through this page, one word I’m particularly keen on is only mentioned once. That word is Java. It is only mentioned in DTrace section where it talks about how DTrace can monitor Java code. So we [...]

As I’m reevaluating and retooling RESTEasy, I’m thinking about what it is going to take to reach 1.0. At a high-level, RESTEasy will provide:

A Server side API as a JAX-RS Implementation
A Client API similar to what I described in this post.
A set of common code that is shared between client and server.

As for features, here’s [...]