Methods for asynchronous communication over HTTP

This post was long overdue….was in my draft folder for almost an year now… Following my post on WebSockets availability in Chrome, I looked around to see what are the options for asynchronous communication over HTTP without WebSockets. Below, I list the available approaches prior to WebSockets and I will also discuss the pros and [...]

Custom Media types in REST

Though most of REST was easy to grok, the HATEOAS constraint and the use of media types in REST posed a huge learning curve for me. So while deciding whether to use custom media type or stick with application/xml or use a standard media type, I had a hard time to choose. What I realized [...]