Bill Burke

Bill Burke is a Fellow at the JBoss division of REd Hat Inc. A long time JBoss contributor and architect, his current project is RESTEasy, RESTful Web Services for Java.

Enterprise JavaBeans 3.1 Enterprise JavaBeans 3.1
by Andrew Lee Rubinger , Bill Burke
Sixth Edition September 2010
Print: $54.99
Ebook: $43.99

RESTful Java with JAX-RS RESTful Java with JAX-RS
by Bill Burke
November 2009
Print: $39.99
Ebook: $31.99

Enterprise JavaBeans 3.0 Enterprise JavaBeans 3.0
by Richard Monson-Haefel , Bill Burke
Fifth Edition May 2006
Ebook: $39.99

Enterprise JavaBeans Enterprise JavaBeans
by Richard Monson-Haefel , Bill Burke , Sacha Labourey
Fourth Edition June 2004
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Bill blogs at:
http://bill.burkecentral.com/

Creating a JBoss Modules zip

May 21 2012

I’ve extracted some of the build files from AS7 to create a maven project that can create a modules/ directory structure for Resteasy.  I wanted this so that people can easily patch/upgrade AS7 to the latest resteasy release.  It should be fairly easy to use the project as an archetype… read more

json-home format: resource discovery

May 11 2012

Thank you Mark Little for turning me on to the JSON-Home format Internet Draft.  “application/json-home” is a format that describes resources available from a particular site as well as possible hints on how to interact with those services. GET / HTTP/1.1 Host: example.org Accept: application/json-home HTTP/1.1 200 OK Content-Type: application/json-home… read more

Mocks are a Mockery

May 01 2012

There were some interesting side conversations going on in the comments of my Java EE wins over Spring blog.  In particular, a few people were arguing over the value of Mocks.  I always considered Mocks a bogus pattern.  Only time I ever use them is when I’m initially starting a… read more

Resteasy 2.3.3.Final Released

May 01 2012

A bunch of bug fixes. Also added a couple new features: A few people were asking for a servlet-free embedded HTTP engine.  Integration with Sun JDK’s com.sun.net.HttpServer was added.  See documentation for more details.  Support for different HTTP engines is in the works. Support for some more formats of the… read more

Decentralized Auth with Cookies

March 19 2012

Way back in June I was brainstorming about ideas for decentralized authentication.  Here’s a summary of the requirements I wanted: Competely stateless servers.  Servers that host browser applications and restful services would not have to store usernames, passwords, or permission metadata (roles allowed). Servers would not have to handshake with… read more

Java EE wins over Spring

March 13 2012

The past 1-2 years since the release of Java EE 6, you’ve seen a lot of articles like this latest on TSS that talk about the niceities of Java EE 6′s component model over Spring and how Spring is now legacy.  Yup legacy.  Who would have thought it?  (other than… read more

Web Sockets, a disaster in waiting?

February 28 2012

Mark posted a really nice article to InfoQ: WebSockets vs. REST? From what I understand of Websockets, its bascially used to set up a two-way socket connection and not really an application protocol. What worries me the most is that you’ve basically rolled back 20 years of protocol consolidation, and… read more