Bill Burke has just posted a bunch of really great feedback on the latest draft of the JAX-RS spec. If you haven’t had a chance to look at the spec, head over here. One thing that JSR-311 had initially chosen not to do was to define a client API. There has a been some grumblings [...]

Lately I’ve been trying to figure some figure out some new ways to define declarative security constraints to web resources. Here’s the a use case that popped into my head a while back: suppose you have a service to access a persons information on a social networking site such as:

http://mysocialnetwork.foo/people/12345
This service offers two levels of [...]

It’s been a while since my last post and even longer since I blogged about RESTEasy. Or better yet, since I committed a change to the RESTEasy code base. This might have lead some to believe that RESTEasy has been abandoned and will cease to exist. Since I have been getting inquiries from friends as [...]

If you’ve been disappointed to learn that Adobe does not offer an installer for Live Cycle Data Services ES, you may be happy to learn that the AIX installer runs just peachy under Mac OS X. The AIX installer is an executable JAR file that runs an InstallAnywhere installer. Simply double-click the JAR and go. [...]

I just spent some time digging through the WWDC schedule and session to see if I could find anything about Java on Leopard. First of all, Java is NOT DEAD on Max OS X and Leopard should ship with some version of Java. And from what WWDC pages read, Apple may actually have a few [...]

As I have pointed out in a previous post, Apple’s commitment to the Java platform appears to be dwindling. Apple has updated their Leopard Preview page to show some of the previously unannounced new features of the OS. What’s suspiciously missing in the features section is any mention of Java 6, or even any mention [...]

Things have been rather hectic over past few weeks with work and floods and all. Some how, I actually managed to get some much need documentation together for RESTEasy. Right now, the docs don’t reflect the current state of the code, but more of where things are headed. Feedback is welcome and appreciated.

I was just reading a post on Fabrizio Giudici’s Blog and it really got me thinking about Apple’s commitment to Java on Mac OS X. As a Java developer who uses a MacBook as the platform of choice, I’m a very concerned about Apple’s recent announcement that Mac OS X 10.5 will be delayed until [...]

Lately I’ve been getting a lot of great feedback and plenty of great suggestions for RESTEasy. As a better way to collaborate, I’ve set up a forum here for just such topics. Look forward to hearing from more of you.

One area that had annoyed me about RESTEasy is dealing with JAXB annotated Entity Beans that get returned from a Stateless Session Bean. Once the SLSB returns the entity, the transaction is committed but the object graph that will be needed for the XML representation may not be fully initialized, thus resulting in a LazyInitializationException [...]