This post is a bit late – in fact two months late, but what I want to tell you about is interesting enough, the goodness knows the topic remains relevant enough to warrant carrying on. So here goes. On April 17 was the third annual WS-REST Workshop, a WWW Conference workshop. I didn’t attend the […]
I’ve recently been helping someone get started with the XML REST Framework, and they asked about getting query string parameters into the XQueries or XSLTs that were a part of their resource implementation. For those of you who are not familiar, what the XML REST Framework does is leverages Spring MVC for all of the HTTP protocol stuff, a developer builds a very thin Java shim to an XProc pipeline that implements the RESTful service. The post I link to above and two earlier versions explain this all in more detail. What I am focusing on in this post is how I can get values from the query string into the right places within my pipeline; there are two parts to this. 1) you need to get your hands on the query string argument and 2) you need to pass that into the XProc pipeline in such a way that it gets to the XQuery or XSLT. It turns out that #2 was already demonstrated in the Patients.java class file in combination with the resourceGET.xpl. Let’s drill in on that a little bit.
This has been a hot topic in my world this week. I have a couple of colleagues with whom I have been having very good discussions (in the context of two totally separate projects) and I wanted to capture one particularly interesting thread here. One of those conversations was started with a reference to a […]
Sometimes I really wish I did something else for a living. Okay, perhaps a bit over-dramatic but I’m feeling a bit tired this evening and wasting even 20 minutes on something totally useless (which, let’s face it, isn’t unusual in computing) has me ready to call it a night. But since googling the error codes […]
I’ve been discussing PUT vs. PATCH with some colleagues and finally took the time to come up with a concrete example of why PUT absolutely should not be used for partial updates of resources. One colleague pointed out the following points made by Roy Fielding on the AtomPub listserv: FWIW, PUT does not mean store. […]
To coincide with EMC World and the presentation I gave on RESTful SOA, I’m delighted to report that we have released the second version of the XML REST Framework. As I described in a previous post, the April 18 release introduced a framework that allowed a services developer to produce RESTful services over EMC Documentum […]
It’s been a really good week for me. I didn’t attend EMC World last year because, well, I didn’t really have much to talk about. But in the last year the work that we have been doing in the CTO Office around an integration architecture that has emerged as Service-oriented and RESTful has reached a […]
Some colleagues and I have been very busy in the last months putting together a framework to do just that. Let me briefly back up a bit…One of the things that I’ve spent some time on in the last couple of years is the Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS) standards development effort. One of the […]
A colleague of mine was still running eclipse with an older version of the FUSE plugin – in particular 1.0.0. He had a single option under the New->Project->FUSE category called “FUSE Project”. Selecting this option created what was essentially a web services project (in particular we are using it for RESTful services) that had all […]
I did it in January – just came back to it today and could not remember what I did. Where is my memory? So for my benefit, and perhaps the benefit of others, I’m writing it down. There are hints in the README that ships with the sample, but it was far from step by […]