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What's a good strategy for managing static data in an SOA?

I'm working on a web application that sits on top of a number of RESTful web services, interacting primarily with those services through JSON formatted messages over HTTP. Our application has a great ...
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Allowing client to select data to return via REST interface

I have a rest service that is essentially a proxy to a variety of other services. So if I call GET /users/{id} It will get their user profile, as well as order history, and contact info, etc... all ...
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Why should I use JAX-RS REST instead of normal servlets?

I'm teaching myself J2EE technologies using Glassfish as my webserver and EJB container. I'm very interested in learning REST as well, and developing an application that is adherent to the rules of ...
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How REST is used outside of the web

I was recently reading the Wikipedia article for Resource-Oriented Architectures (ROA) and stumbled across an article that made the assertion that, although REST is a technology that is very-well ...
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BEST Format/Protocol for RESTful SOA

Which is the best protocol / format for SOA designs using REST. Here are some options but i can't decide... XML JSON YAML ProtoBuf ... anything else i might have missed These are my ...
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Is SOA suitable for developers or only for business/IT management people?

Let's suppose you're the lead of a team of developers that needs to build a big information system such as an ERP or Human Resources software, or whatever system that is composed by multiple business ...