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NetKernel not only makes it easy to build RESTful systems in Java and other languages that run on the JVM; it also changes the way you think about tying components together. So far this series has ...

Despite REST's position as the de facto standard in web services development, it's not without some shortcomings. Data exchange formats can be bloated, and it lacks standards for API documentation and ...

I'm frankly surprised by the amount of people coding backends and frontends that communicate through REST. RPC is a nearly transparent mechanism that makes communication between two processes nearly ...