REST with JAX-RS and silverlight clients

REST with JAX-RS and silverlight clients

I am Working on a RESTful  service using Jersey (not my first choice, but a reasonable compromise). It is hosted inside FuseESBand all is well. Here’s an overly simplified version of the resource that reports status: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 @Path("/stat") public class StatusResource { @GET @Produces(MediaType.TEXT_PLAIN) public String...

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SOA Patterns : Composite Frontend (PDF)

SOA Patterns : Composite Frontend (PDF)

I got a few request for a PDF version of the pattern so here it is :  Composite Frontend Pattern

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SOA Patterns : Composite Frontend

SOA Patterns : Composite Frontend

I am not blogging much these days – most of it is due to trying to get my bloody book finished. A case study and a finished anti-pattern chapter where recently pushed to the MEAP, and here’s one additional pattern from chapter 6 (service consumer patterns): When we try to think about service consumers, the obvious candidates are, of course, other services. Nevertheless there are other...

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HP’s enterprise play

HP’s enterprise play

The internet is ablaze with posts and articles on HPs abandonment of WebOS and the PC business. I don’t have a lot to add to this discussion (It’s a pity, I was considering a Pre3 device, blah blah). I am personally more interested in the last bit of their announcement that talked about the 10.3bn$ acquisition of Autonomy. If we add this to HP’s acquisition of Vertica just 6...

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RabbitMQ – part I – AMQP

RabbitMQ – part I –  AMQP

I haven’t blogged in a few months and I guess it is about time I get back to writing. A lot has happened including me leaving CloudValue (I still think it can be interesting business-wise, but it wasn’t very challenging technically) and moving to a new company (where I’ll probably won’t get rich but I get to work on challenging projects :) ). Anyway, I working with quite a...

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Amazon’s EC2 & EBS outage

Amazon’s EC2 & EBS outage

Unless you are living under a rock, you’ve probably heard, if not felt Amazon’s outage (you can read more about it all over the web, e.g.  Cade Metz at the register or Julianne Pepitone at CNN money, [edit Apr26] Todd Hoff ‘s list of posts on the subject) This incident is very interesting in the technical sense as well as very  disturbing. First off it is a major event since...

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