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DESCRIPTION:Web Services have been all the rage for several years now. We h
 ave been told time and again that we should be building systems around them
 \; as an industry\, we've never been more confused. Perhaps it is time to G
 ive it a REST.
\nPart of the problem with the conventional Web Services tec
 hnology stack is that it is more complex than it needs to be for small to m
 edium-sized systems. All of the examples show how simple it all is\, but ho
 w often do we really need to check the temperature or get a stock quotation
 ? Real systems that are built out of these technologies are rapidly spirali
 ng toward incomprehensibility\, unmaintainability and (shocker) insecurity!
 
\nSOAP has a place\, but so does REST\, a simpler architectural style for 
 invoking services in a language- and platform- independent way. This talk w
 ill motivate REST\, explain how it fits in to other Enterprise and Web tech
 nologies and help give you some ammo for suggesting that your organization 
 give it a REST too.
\nWe will look at getting started with the Restlet API\
 , using conventional containers and advanced environments like NetKernel to
  build scalable REST-oriented systems.
SUMMARY:Give It a REST
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LOCATION:Loyola University of Chicago
\n820 N Michigan Ave\, Chicago\, IL 6
 0611
\nLewis Towers 13th floor ballroom (Beane Hall)
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