Building a RESTful Service Layer with ColdFusion
| Level | Advanced | Time | 10:45 - 12:15 | Room | CG1056 | Speaker | Doug Smith |
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Description
REST-based service oriented architectures have become a popular pattern for offering services that can be consumed by diverse web clients. Using the architecture of the web itself, RESTful services provide a high performance, robust solution without the unnecessary complexities of SOAP and its related technologies.
In this session, Doug will provide a brief introduction to REST as it relates to web-enabled services, demonstrate a service currently used at daveramsey.com to support their 10M+ pageview per month site, and walk through a hands-on implementation where participants will build a RESTful service using ColdFusion 9, Mach-II v1.9, and the new REST Endpoints (created by Doug in partnership with Team Mach-II).
Special Setup
- A fully functional web-app will be provided as a foundation for the hands-on portion. A JDK 1.5+ will be required to run it.
Prerequisites
Attendees should be familiar with web development in some flavor of CFML, including OO development using CFCs. ColdSpring and some MVC framework experience will also be helpful.
