REST Resources

Writing Google gadgets can be a simple task for simple cases. Could the same be said about complex yet more useful gadgets? Implementing complex and serious gadgets could be fun and exciting too, but only if you learn the principles right, and know where to look for tips and tricks. The purpose of this series of tutorials is to help you go beyond "Hello World" type examples and deep dive into more advanced and useful techniques.

Moving a software architecture to service orientation provides clear benefits, including business agility, operational excellence, and the enablement of innovation. However, it brings challenges as well. In his keynote presentation at WSO2Con 2011, Mr. Malladi drew on his experiences at eBay, the world’s largest online marketplace, to outline recommendations for successful service orientation. Along the way, he dispelled some common myths. Here are highlights of the perspectives and best practices he shared.

Sastry is a technology evangelist with over 20 years of experience in architecting and building scalable distributed computing systems, in the areas of Application Servers, Java/J2EE/Web Services, SOA and Grid Computing. He is currently a Distinguished Architect at eBay, driving the SOA architecture and platform for the eBay ecommerce platform. Prior to joining eBay, Sastry was Co-Founder and CTO of OpenGridSolutions, Founding member and Architect at SpikeSource, and an Architect at Oracle. Sastry also worked at many other companies in the early stages of his career and holds a Masters degree from I.I.T, Kharagpur, India. Sastry has presented at many conferences including JavaOne, Oracle World, SOA world and IONA world to name a few. Sastry contributed to and represented in many standards at OMG, JCP, GGF and OASIS.

In this tutorial, Dimuthu Gamage, Technical Lead at WSO2, guides you on how to get started with WSO2 Governance as a Service.

In this tutorial, Keith Chapman looks at implementing a REST service in Apache Axis2.