Thursday, January 06, 2005
Wednesday, January 05, 2005
Java development
Developers seem to be getting tired of the complexity associated with the J2EE architecture and as such are developing and using lightweight frameworks which use POJOs. A combination which seems to becoming popular is Struts for the (web) user interface, Spring for the code container and Hibernate for object/relational mapping".
Developers seem to be getting tired of the complexity associated with the J2EE architecture and as such are developing and using lightweight frameworks which use POJOs. A combination which seems to becoming popular is Struts for the (web) user interface, Spring for the code container and Hibernate for object/relational mapping".
Distributed Computing
What happend to JINI? This article Jini: Out of the Bottle and Into the Box by Daniel H. Steinberg show how it could be used and also makes a comparision to Apple's Rendezvous.
What happend to JINI? This article Jini: Out of the Bottle and Into the Box by Daniel H. Steinberg show how it could be used and also makes a comparision to Apple's Rendezvous.
Tuesday, January 04, 2005
From this recent (Dec. 2004) article IEEE DS Online: Critics Say Web Services Need a REST it seems that the debate between the SOAP and the REST crowd hasn't been resolved. Basically the argument seems to run that SOAP is a web based implementation of a RPC model of communcation, whereas REST is document based. Although I tend to agree with this, I'm confused by the fact that the REST theory (see, for instance, Ray Fielding's doctoral dissertion ) seems to require that the HTTP verbs of GET, DELETE, POST and PUT should be used. If each service is uniquely defined by a URL then why have something else to define the semantics?
