A couple of weeks ago, I presented REST to the IT staff in the London division of a major US investment bank. Out of something like 100 people, only a small number of people had ever heard of REST.

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There has been some subterranean discussion in the content management standards arena about what is the best way to support the interoperability of content services with applications. Should vendors ...

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The REST architectural style in the Semantic Web From an IT manager’s perspective, REST might just be another way of moving information, but without all the tools associated with SOAP. In this final ...

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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 ...

SANTA CLARA, Calif.--The Physical Security Interoperability Alliance, a group that includes a number of large security manufacturers and integrators, announced this week the adoption of REST ...

Many efforts are centered around creating largescale networks of “smart things” found in the physical world (e.g.,wireless sensor and actuator networks, embedded devices, tagged objects). Rather than ...