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I’m looking through technorati references today and it turns out Hiram Chirino – famed ActiveMQ/SerivceMix/Geronimo developer – started a blog today. He already has like 6 entries (including some good suggestions about a REST programming model). I’m lucky if I get like 6 a month! There’s all sorts of goodness about messaging in there – definitely recommended that you subscribe.

I spent some time on the way home from JavaOne thinking about a REST programming model. The benefit of a REST programming model would be that it would give us an easy way to expose resources from POJOs and interfaces. I’ve started a wiki page to get some discussions going, but let me summarize/explain some ideas here.

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So more and more people have been reporting to me the coolness of soapui. From their website:

soapui is a desktop application for inspecting, invoking and testing (functional and load) of web services over HTTP. It is mainly aimed at developers/testers providing and/or consuming web services (java, .net, etc). Functional and Load-Testing can be done both interactively in soapui or within a automated build/integration process using the soapui command-line tools. soapui currently requires java 1.5 and is licensed under the LGPL license.

This is great – we need more good tools for testing services.

Also, the soapui project recently added support for generating and using XFire clients. I haven’t played with it yet, but if you want to try it out they have snapshots with this support available on their website.

If you’ve tried to go to the XFire website recently you’ll unfortunately see its down. It seems that even RAID can’t protect you from file system corruption. We are currently working to restore backups on a new server and at the same time trying to get the old server back up.
If you’re looking to use XFire you can:

• Get a mirror of the distribution thanks to Stefan Freyr Stefansson
• View the wiki
• View JIRA

Thanks for everyone’s patience as the Codehaus resolves this matter.

Its 6 AM and I’m sitting in an airport headed out to where else but JavaOne. If you’re going to be there and want to meet feel free to give me a ring at 616-318-3474.

Just in case you missed it, XFire 1.1 was released on Friday.
Thanks to everyone who helped on this release. XFire is based directly on feedback from users and that is what has made it so successful!

So yeah, try XFire 1.1 – its like totally awesome and stuff.