ActiveResource makes it easy to integrate Rails applications through RESTful services, but what if the resource is being produced by a Java application. JAX-RS is the best bet for writing these resources and with a few tricks we can get a service to conform to the requirements of an ActiveResource service. Read on to see [...]

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RESTful web services and jQuery make it easy to create an enterprise mashup. This 2 part article discusses how to create a simple enterprise mashup using jQuery. Part 1 introduced the basic requirements of your enterprise services, the simplicity of JSON, and how to consume your RESTful web services using jQuery. Part 2 covers consuming [...]

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RESTful web services and jQuery make it easy to create an enterprise mashup. This 2 part article discusses how to create a simple enterprise mashup using jQuery. Part 1 introduces what is required of your enterprise services, the simplicity of JSON, and how to consume your RESTful web services using jQuery. Part 2 will cover [...]

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If you are developing RESTful services that will be consumed by AJAX clients on different servers, you will likely need to support JSONP. JSONP allows your RESTful web services to support cross-domain communication by enabling your clients to bypass the same-origin policy browser restriction. While some JAX-RS implementations support JSONP, this article demonstrates how any [...]

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