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 [...]

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 [...]

I’ve found myself enjoying working with Adobe Flex. Flex does a lot of things really well, except its support of the HTTP protocol. Here’s a few things folks don’t know about the Flash Players HTTP support:

It only support GET and POST methods. In order to use other methods such as DELETE and PUT, you have [...]

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 [...]

A lot of people have been giving a lot of oooh’s and aaah’s to Microsofts still beta/alpha Silverlight’s HD video features. While HD video in Silverlight is cool and all, it was only a matter of time before Adobe offered up their HD offering. According to News.com, an upcoming Flash player update code named “Moviestar” [...]