Consultant Ian Robinson, Conchango

Ian Robinson (http://iansrobinson.com) is a consultant at Conchango, where he specializes in the design and delivery of service-oriented and distributed systems. Prior to joining Conchango, Ian was a Principal Consultant at ThoughtWorks.

Ian has written guidance for Microsoft on implementing integration patterns with Microsoft technologies, and has published articles on business-oriented development methodologies and distributed systems design, most recently in The ThoughtWorks Anthology (Pragmatic Programmers, 2008). He is currently co-authoring a book on Web-friendly enterprise integration.

Presentation: "RESTful Enterprise Development"

Track: REST - A New Foundation For SOA?

Time: Tuesday 13:20 - 14:10

Location: Rytmisk Sal

Abstract: In this session I'll discuss how a large telecommunications company has developed RESTful and Web-friendly services side-by-side with more traditional WS-* services. Using Atom, AtomPub, caching, URI templates and microformats, the company has addressed a wide range of challenges, from standard integration tasks such as exposing legacy data to custom and vendor applications and services, publishing and consuming events, and service monitoring, to more dynamic, ad hoc and differentiating activities that expose resources to partners, customers and internal composite applications. The session is of interest to architects and developers interested in or already using RESTful techniques within the enterprise. I'll discuss some of the criteria we used for making particular architectural and implementation decisions and will demonstrate plenty of working code.