Convergence of Technologies II: Restlets, Highslide Viewer & SlideShowPro for Flash

Slide show for a travel site that relies heavily on photo galleries is a must. Finally, I decided to purchase SlideShowPro for Flash component and combined it with Highslide Viewer pop-ups and dynamic content generation. Obviously, the latter is implemented using Restlets. 08/14/2009 by Serge Ilyn

Convergence of Technologies: Restlets, Highslide Viewer & Google Maps API

It started when I decided to add Google maps to some of my articles. I found plenty of examples how to do this on the Web. But I wanted a solution with a twist - maps I wanted should open in a non-blockable pop-up when the user clicks on a button or link. Eventually, I had to find a solution I liked myself using Restlets, Highslide Viewer & Google Maps API. 08/13/2009 by Serge Ilyn

Ambimorphic, Mobile Configurations for Lamport Clocks

Unified embedded models have led to many compelling advances, including the Turing machine and reinforcement learning. After years of technical research into Smalltalk, with close cooperation with MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) and its SCIgen, we have been able to show the construction of link-level acknowledgements. As a result, we propose an analysis of A* search, which we call Volt. 10/02/2008 by Serge Ilyn

Restlets and HTTP Sessions (Recipe 9)

HTTP sessions are very popular among Web developers because they allow for easy implementation of things like complex authentications (resulting in creating complex security contexts), shopping carts, etc. All we need to do is to use out-of-the-box implementation of Servlet API where vendors take care of all internal plumbing. On the other hand, if you peruse Restlet API, you will find that it does not contain anything even remotely similar to servlet sessions. Let's see what we can do to make up for the lack of what could be "RestletSession" class in Restlet API. 07/31/2008 by Val

Restlet Cookbook - Delving into handleGet() and handlePost() (Recipe 8)

If you look at the Restlet API related to the org.restlet.resource.Resource, you will notice several handleX() methods where X may stand for various types of calls. When you develop a Web site application with more or less complex functionality, these methods, in particular, handleGet() and handlePost() may be your best friends in finding solution for some trickery you plan for the site. This posting provides related examples that illustrate at least some simple things you may do with these methods. 07/30/2008 by Serge Ilyn

Restlet Cookbook - How to enable SSL (Recipe 7)

If you have never dealt with SSL, configuring it for your Web application may seem to you like a dark science or anyway confusing and frustrating experience. Not to fear - you are not the only and not the first one. Please Google if you are interested to learn related technologies. This article is a kind of 1-2-3 type of approach written under assumption that it's possible to complete this job without knowing anything about keys, encryption, SSL and such. 07/29/2008 by Serge Ilyn

Restlet Cookbook - Using Filters in Restlet Applications (Recipe 6)

The idea of using filters (facilities that can transform a request or modify a response ) are not new in Web applications. For example, in Servlet API filters have been since Servlet API 2.3. Restlet API provides a similar facility implemented as an abstract class org.restlet.Filter. 03/09/2008 by Val

Restlet Cookbook - How to Create Virtual Hosts in Restlet Applications (Recipe 5)

Virtual hosting allows Web servers to host more than one domain name on the same computer, sometimes on the same IP address. It's a must for any more or less serious piece of software of the kind. 02/24/2008 by Val