A couple of weeks ago, I presented REST to the IT staff in the London division of a major US investment bank. Out of something like 100 people, only a small number of people had ever heard of REST.

For decades now, industrial networks in their various fieldbus and Ethernet forms have handled all the communication between the controllers, devices and any of the various nodes that exist on the ...

At the SD Best Practices conference, Dan Diephouse of MuleSource gave a talk about Patterns for RESTful SOA. We discussed this subject prior to his talk. While most of the software development world’s ...

RESTful services are stateless, client-server based, cacheable and leverage resources. These resources have a common interface and are uniquely addressable using URIs. In this post, I’ll present some ...

One of the key strengths of REST is its simplicity, but that simplicity sometimes raises objections from developers who question whether such a simple approach to application integration can deal with ...

Many efforts are centered around creating largescale networks of “smart things” found in the physical world (e.g.,wireless sensor and actuator networks, embedded devices, tagged objects). Rather than ...