TITLE: HATEOAS Your Cake and Eat It Too: Turning Complex Business Processes into an Easy-To-Use API
DESCRIPTION: We set out to build a HATEOAS server that had all the bells and whistles, only to find, well, not many pre-existing bells and whistles. By necessity we had to build our own HATEOAS server and find out how to turn our complex e-commerce process into an API that required little training to be successful with. This talk will cover that journey and provide some insight as to how to do it yourself.
SPEAKER: Matt Bishop is the Senior Item Architect at Elastic Course (EP). He and the dev group at EP have actually been busy for the last 18 months building out a Level 3 REST (HATEOAS) API for their high-end ecommerce system. Prior to that Matt was an Innovation Designer at SAP looking into REST, searching for a method to move SAP from SOAP to REST (stopped working) he likewise researched Comet and mobile applications. Before that was a stint dealing with mobile apps in the technical service market (great deals of mud, dust and harmful waste). Prior to that Matt operated at BEA on Weblogic Workshop 7 and 8 (Eclipse sucked at that time too). Before that he developed software to print publications and papers which is way more interesting that it sounds. There’s a few other before-thats, including Atari Computers (not the video games). Matt has been developing Internet apps (hey there Server-Side Applets!) because when individuals thought AOL was the Internet and the cool kids had actually shotgunned dialup.
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