Jack Cox
Jan 28 2010
What's New For iPhone Developers on the iPad
With the release of the Apple iPad and the associated iPhone SDK 3.2 there are a number of new features of the SDK. This article provides a high level overview of those features. At the current time, iPhone OS 3.2 is only available on the iPad, iPhone developers will have to wait for these features..
Nov 24 2009
Tutorial: Simple iPhone Rest Client
Introduction
This article follows previous articles on components for a RESTful iPhone application and an example RESTful service using Jersey (http://blogs.captechventures.com/blog/jack-cox/implementing-iphone-friendly-rest-service-jersey-spring-and-jaxb). This article walks through the iPhone application to display the data provided by the REST service.
Nov 12 2009
Implementing an iPhone friendly REST Service with Jersey, Spring and JAXB
This article provides a specific example, with code, of using Jersey and JAXB to implement a REST service suitable for consumption by an iPhone application. It follows an earlier article (http://blogs.captechventures.com/blog/jack-cox/components-enterprise-iphone-restful-applications) in which I surveyed the components that can be used to create an iPhone application that consumes a REST service.
Components
Jersey
Jersey is an open source reference implementation of the JSR-311 (JAX-RS) specification provided by Sun. In my client work with Jersey, it has proven to be a reliable and lightweight framework for providing REST endpoints and it integrates well with Spring, which will be shown later.
Jersey is available from Sun at https://jersey.dev.java.net
Aug 15 2009
Components for Enterprise iPhone RESTful Applications
Most substantial iPhone applications require some integration with information stored on a server and almost all enterprise iPhone applications require server integration. This brief article describes some of the potential solutions for this integration problem and focuses on cataloging tools to solve the problem using a RESTful approach. Future articles will describe the components in depths; including code samples.