Practical RESTful Persistence

Java EE developers are increasingly required to embrace thin-server-architecture client application development while leveraging their existing components. On the surface, this appears to simply mean using JAX-RS to expose RESTful services. But the real challenges are often misunderstood and underestimated. EclipseLink has solved a large part of this problem through its new JPA-RS feature which integrates JAX-RS, JAXB and JPA to allow developers to expose their persistent entities over REST with support for all lifecycle operations and query execution. In building JPA-RS, EclipseLink faced and overcame many of the challenges developers face when realizing a REST resource model, addressing HATEOS, and the infrastructure for JSON and XML binding. Learn more in this session.

Author:
Shaun Smith
Shaun Smith is co-lead of the Eclipse Dali Java Persistence API Tools Project, Ecosystem Development Lead for the Eclipse Java Persistence Platform (EclipeLink), a committer on the EMF Tools Teneo project, and a product manager for Oracle TopLink. He's been building systems using object-relational mapping technologies for a decade in both Java and Smalltalk in the energy, telecommunications, and banking industries. Prior to joining the TopLink team at Oracle, Shaun was a consultant specializing in application architecture and agile software development methods with a particular focus on developing enterprise applications using test driven design. He's a SpringOne alumni speaker and a frequent conference presenter having recently spoken at EclipseCon, EclipseWorld, The Server Side Symposium, JavaPolis, and JavaOne.