Evolving Java-based APIs – Eclipsepedia
Jazz colleague Jim des Rivieres’ excellent analysis on how to achieve compatible evolution of Java-based APIs. Need something similar on compatible evolution of REST-based APIs.
IBM WebSphere Developer Technical Journal: Advanced authentication in WebSphere Application Server
Deep into the realm of advanced authentication in WAS, building on top of JAAS. Via Pete Birk of the WAS security dev team.
Excellent set of early (in web years) articles on REST.
Architectural Styles and the Design of Network-based Software Architectures
Fielding’s excellent thesis which describes the REST architectural style but also has an interesting discussion on the topic of architectural styles in general.
Hypertext Transfer Protocol — HTTP/1.1
The final word on all things HTTP.
Fascinating writings and links from Google’s Director of Research.
Fiddler HTTP Debugger – A free web debugging tool
Eric Lawrence’s very useful tool for monitoring network traffic (including XHR) between browsers and a server.
NevOn: Interview: Mike Wing, IBM – May 20, 2005
2005 interview with Mike Wing (VP of Strategic Communications at IBM) when blogging was new at IBM.
The w3c’s attempt to standardize the de facto XHR standard.
Docs on the Mozilla implementation of XHR
Discussion of some of the issues of authenticating REST-style web services including an example of securing your services with Basic or Digest auth using Apache HTTP Server.
What I Didn’t Know About XHR – O’Reilly XML Blog
Interesting test case explaining browsers’ default limitations on number of concurrent XHR requests.
Bug 339530 – Basic auth fails with XMLHttpRequest
A bug related to supporting the user and password arguments to XmlHttpRequest#open
MSDN XMLHttpRequest#open method
Microsoft’s documentation on IE’s API for the XmlHttpRequest’s open method. It also talks about IE’s overly-aggressive GET caching.
XMLHttpRequest HTTP Feature Tests
Executable test case to determine your current browser’s support for XHR features.
Executable test case to determine the correctness of your browser’s resource caching via XHR.
Using Basic Authentication via with AJAX to access CMP
Solutions for using Basic Auth from an Ajax application sans ugly browser dialog.
Additional commentary and analysis on the ‘Using Basic Authentication via with AJAX to access CMP‘ wiki page