In two previous posts, we have seen how to develop RESTful application with JBoss AS 7. At the end of the second blog we used a generic REST client tool to execute some RESTful web services. Of course we would rather build a custom UI application as client for our services, so that a user can easily access and manipulate the data. In this blog we build a REST client that is based on the master-detail principle.
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Tags: jquery, json, master-detail, rest
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Last Friday, one week ago, the Software Development Day was at Xebia, the first one for me as I started at Xebia this year. As written by Iwein there was some discussion about the use of Javascript started by yours truly. Should we do all UI related functionality in Javascript? Do we do throw away our knowledge, tools and best practices we know when we start coding Javascript? Why should we code in Javascript using the browser as some sort of Virtual Machine, if in fact we want to create desktop application?
Tags: Javascript, jquery, json
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Sharing knowledge is one of our core values and as lot’s of research confirms knowledge transfer is best done between peers. We have a great knowledge sharing platform at Xebia through bi-weekly evening sessions, where we do some experimental coding and some presentations. Once in a while we take it to the max and organise a tech rally. One of those happened last Friday and it was a total blast. I’ll give you some of the highlights. More detailed posts on the technical details will follow and I’ll update the list below as they do:
Tags: hyperproductivity, jquery, knowlege-exchange, mongodb, posterous, Spring
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