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These days, REST APIs are available to integrate your application or website with thousands of platforms — Web 2.0 properties such as Twitter, Facebook, and Foursquare, as well as old-school companies ...

REST API integrations can be daunting if you haven't worked with Web services before. Here's how to get started Most API documentation assumes an understanding of the foundational technology, and ...

Many Java professionals are interested in learning the basics about RESTful Web services, but they often find tutorials that are overly complicated. In this quick tip, we’re going right back to the ...

Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with content, and download exclusive resources. Vivek Yadav, an engineering manager from ...

Open source projects are emerging to further software development practices based on RESTful APIs, which are becoming more instrumental in providing app back-end services and other functionality. To ...

Part 2 of this four-part series on Java SE Web services showed how to use the JAX-WS API to develop SOAP-based Web services. JAX-WS also supports RESTful-based Web services, which this article shows ...

How do you access a RESTful web service? That depends on what you're trying to accomplish. If you just want to test connectivity, a terminal-based utility like curl is a great RESTful web service ...

If you want to build lightweight, fast, REST APIs, or provide server support for AJAX-intense Rich Internet Applications such as Gmail, or develop scalable systems that can support thousands of ...