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Managing Alerts in Web Application Using RESTful API
I have designed a RESTful API and I am now working on creating a web application to use the service.
One thing I am struggling with is how to manage alerts in the web application (similar to the ...
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How to make my web app restful
I have a web application which I want to make RESTful.
Here is the structure of the app:
Top level has a bunch of search screens, they are basically tabs which search different parts of database ...
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A Web application as a REST API client: how to handle resource identifiers
Several concepts related to REST conflict in my head when I try implementing it.
I have a REST-ful back-end API system that holds the business logic, and a web application that provides the UI. From ...
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Reasons NOT to use JSF [closed]
I am new to StackExchange, but I figured you would be able to help me.
We're crating a new Java Enterprise application, replacing an legacy JSP solution. Due to many many changes, the UI and parts of ...
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Should cookies be used in a RESTful API?
I'm specifically interested in how users perform authorized / authenticated operations on a web API.
Are authentication cookies compatible with the REST philosophy, and why?
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Should I use WADL to describe my RESTful API?
I'm about to embark on a project that makes extensive use of a properly RESTful approach. That is, it uses HATEOAS and serves up resources in a manner that allows for general exploration by a client.
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Handling REST Response Formats
It seems that newer websites (and API's especially) make use of request formats by adding the expected format to the end of the URL path.
/path/to/resource.html
/path/to/resource.json
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Alternatives to OAuth?
The Web industry is shifting / has shifted towards using OAuth when extending API services to external consumers & developers. There is some elegance in simple....and well, the 3-step OAuth ...
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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 ...
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Applying RESTful design to an entire website?
This all may come across very newbish, but I'm trying to wrap my head around designing a website that is thoroughly RESTful. I understand applying RESTful design to things like Users, Photos, Blog ...
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Pros and Cons of RESTful architecture
The most common discussion I've seen regarding the pros and cons of REST tends to frame that discussion relative to SOAP. I have no experience in either. I am currently faced with a decision which my ...
