Software Engineering Radio

Recording Venue: Skype
Guest: John Wiegand

Host: Martin

This time we have John Wiegand on the mic for an episode on architectures and agile software development. We talk about the role of architectures in an agile world and why architectures change and need to change over time. We discuss the characteristics of those living architectures, using the Eclipse and the Jazz projects as examples, and the surrounding development methods for such environments.

Links:

• The Eclipse project
• Jazz community site
• RESTful architecture style at Wikipedia

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Recording Venue: OOP 2008
Guest(s): Stefan Tilkov

Host(s): Markus
In this episode we discuss REST (Representational State Transfer) with Stefan Tilkov. We started out by discussing the 5 steps to REST: IDs, links, Standard Methods, multiple representations and stateless communication. We then looked at how to use HTTP for REST, and discussed about how to use it for Web Services. We then we discussed whether and how to use REST for enterprise applications, and not just for apps on the internet. We concluded the discussion with a couple of recommendations.

Links:

• Article: REST Introduction
• Article: Addressing Doubts about REST
• Fielding’s dissertation on REST
• REST Wiki
• Book: Restful Web Services
• Stefan’s Blog

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