Web 2.0 architectures with Java
Here are two things to go beyond Web Services (with ReSTfullness in mind):
- the “Web-Oriented Architecture” (WOA) concept is a lightweight version of the “Service-Oriented Architecture” concept, in a more Web 2.0 fashion.
restlets are a Java framework for Web 2.0 applications; they replace servlets API and facilitate the composition of “mashups” or Web applications relying on information collected from other live Web applications; there even is an open source reference implementation that is about to reach maturity and is actively developped
Take-away: beyond theory (ReST), there now are concepts (WOA) and tools (restlets) for building composite Web applications without requiring SOAP, WSDL and the whole bunch of overbloated WS-* standards that come with them.
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