The Best of the Week (Sept 5): Enterprise Integration

Make sure you didn't miss anything with this list of the Best of the Week in the Enterprise Integration Zone (Sept 5 to Sept 12). Here they are, in order of popularity:

1. Top 10 Security Issues for REST APIs (Webinar, Sept 18)

REST API Security has come a long way from being a case of "Just use SSL"... or has it? On September 18th at 11am US Eastern Time / 4pm UK, we're running a webinar with Gunnar Peterson on the Top 10 Security Issues for REST APIs.

2. SOA School: Put your SOAP to REST

The benefits of applying the principles of SOA when catering to the IT needs of your organization are clear in a business-driven, vendor-neutral architecture. It considers all requirements from the perspective of the business process and delivers implementations in order to automate the same.

3. Secure REST Services Using Spring Security

Recently, I was working on a project which uses a REST services layer to communicate with the client application (GWT application).

4. Designing Your RESTful API for Longevity

Building an API for longevity requires careful thought, careful design, and extensive prototyping to get developer feedback. Without a solid foundation your API is doomed to be short lived, becoming nothing more than a costly experiment to justify building a better API.

5. Getting Started with JHipster on OS X

Last week I was tasked with developing a quick prototype that used AngularJS for its client and Spring MVC for its server. My colleague mentioned he was going to use RESThub as his starting point, so I figured I'd use JHipster as mine.