The Apache Foundation today announced the general availability of Apache Fortress Project version 1.0. Fortress provides Java users with standards-based access management through a Java SDK, a security plug-in for Tomcat, REST wrappers for APIs, and all the relevant Web pages for such a system. Apache Fortress sprang out of the larger Apache Directory Project, … continue reading
Tony Tam has definitely got Swagger—as in the API framework that he created. Swagger 2.0 was released earlier this year, and its popularity is helping to smooth out the frustratingly fragmented world of APIs. Today, he joined SmartBear, where he will head up API-related work within the company. Tam originally developed Swagger while working, of … continue reading
DreamFactory and Verizon have partnered to launch a free enterprise application development portal for Verizon Cloud. Built with DreamFactory’s open-source REST API MBaaS and hosted on Verizon’s cloud, the DreamFactory-Verizon Partner Solutions Portal gives developers a cloud-first development environment for desktop, mobile and IoT app creation. The portal provides enterprise developers with CloudSpace sandboxes to … continue reading
Google is expanding the reach of its Project Tango Tablet Development Kits to more countries worldwide. Starting today the dev kits for the mobile computer vision platform are available in Canada and South Korea, and on Aug. 26 the kits will be available in Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, and the … continue reading
SOMERVILLE, Mass.– SmartBear Software, the leader in software quality tools for the connected world, released a new plugin for Ready! API that allows users to import APIs from developer portals managed by CA Technologies to test and virtualize RESTful and SOAP services. CA API Management delivers cross-functional benefit across a variety of users including the … continue reading
SmartBear Software wants to make sure that as APIs are adopted, the amount of potential risks doesn’t increase. The company recently announced Ready API Secure Pro, a new automated approach to API security testing designed to cover common risks of modern REST and traditional SOAP Web services. “The epic growth of APIs in the past … continue reading
Service-oriented architecture—the notion of using loosely coupled Web services components that can plug into applications as needed to add functionality—remains a solid foundation underlying today’s cloud-based computing. But the use of REST APIs has superseded enterprise service buses and SOAP-based Web services, so the term SOA has fallen out of favor even as its basic … continue reading
Monrovia, CA –Parasoft announced today the release of a consolidated platform uniting API testing, service virtualization, and test environment management. The new product capabilities allow an organization to “shift left” the testing effort and accelerate the SDLC to meet the growing time-to-market pressure for software applications. Parasoft’s enterprise-grade API Testing solution for testing end-to-end transactions … continue reading
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Larry O’Brien encounters a cloud project that can only be overcome with the power of REST … continue reading
Layer 7’s Francois Lascelles backs SAML over OpenID for RESTful Web-service security … continue reading
