Posted by Maarten Winkels in the late afternoon: September 15th, 2011
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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Posted by Michaël van Leeuwen just before lunchtime: August 10th, 2011
When working on a mobile Android application, I was confronted with the fact that the backend server wasn’t available yet to deliver the REST service. But I needed a server or good dummy for testing the Android client against the REST services. So I began my search for a REST mock server.
I started out using the SoapUI REST functionality, but that still lacks a good implementation for my purpose of reacting on REST calls. I ended up with a 10-minute build-your-own REST mock using the Play framework. This blogs describes how this was accomplished.
Posted by Maarten Winkels in the early morning: July 12th, 2011
JBoss AS 7 CR1 has been released recently. On the previous release it was pretty easy to develop RESTful applications with the build in JAX-RS support based on RESTeasy. In this blog I’ll look at how well the new version of JBoss keeps up with the rest of the field.