We hiked up the Keechelus Ridge today. This is a moderately steep climb from the Price Creek Sno-Park. In just about three miles, this trail climbs over 1600 ft.
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In Magic Signatures for Salmon, John Panzer describes a way to pass signed XML data without involving XML canonicalization (c14n). Anyone who has dealt with WS-Security specs knows that canonicalization can be fragile (back in my days at BEA, getting signatures to work on the WebLogic stack turned out to be hard due to bugs in the c14n implementation) and slow. John Panzer’s approach is quite simple, but it requires introducing an XML based envelope format.
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In the ideal world, what we see is the current. In the distributed software world, what we see may be stale. We can't tell. Would not it be nice to specify a cache invalidation API such that the source of the change can notify everyone that it changed? That is what an OpenSocial 1.0 draft aims to do.
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The due date (February 8, 2010) for WS-REST 2010 First International Workshop on RESTful Design is fast approaching. There is still time to submit papers for this workshop. Topics include:
- Applications of the REST architectural style to novel domains
- Design Patterns and Anti-Patterns for RESTful services
- RESTful service composition
- Inverted REST (REST for push events)
- Integration of Pub/Sub with REST
- Performance and QoS Evaluations of RESTful services
- REST compliant transaction models
- Mashups
- Frameworks and toolkits for RESTful service implementations
- Frameworks and toolkits for RESTful service consumption
- Modeling RESTful services
- Resource Design and Granularity
- Evolution of RESTful services
- Versioning and Extension of REST APIs
- HTTP extensions and replacements
- REST compliant protocols beyond HTTP
- Multi-Protocol REST (REST architectures across protocols)
This list is exhaustive. In particular, I would love to see contributions presenting on performance and QoS, tradeoffs, HTTP extensions and client/server side frameworks. See the call for papers for more details.
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