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Searching Profiles programmatically

Thu, 08 Dec 2011 18:42:28 GMT

As part of IBM Connections you will find a big REST API that allows you to work with almost every part of Connections such as searching for profiles, managing files and working with communities. As part of our new product (see my previous post) I'm doing a lot with this API. Right now one of my favorite wiki documents is "Searching Profiles programmatically".

Knowledge path: RESTful web services

Fri, 01 Jul 2011 05:49:28 GMT

Found an excellent summary article on developerWorks called Knowledge Path: Build RESTful web services with Java technology. It has some very good information and links to articles split into 5 sections:

Understand REST concepts
Meet the Java API for RESTful Web Services (JAX-RS)
Build RESTful applications with Java frameworks
Combine REST with the Java Persistence API (JPA)
Create RESTful web services with IBM WebSphere sMash

Great reads right there!

RESTlets in Jersey

Sun, 28 Dec 2008 17:32:28 GMT

REST services are very in so you might want to read this article (Configuring JSON for RESTful Web Services in Jersey 1.0) on how to use the Jersey REST framework. RESTlets is another Java API trying to standardize how to develop REST services using Java.