Monthly Archives: December 2008

Using JAX-RS with Protocol Buffers for high-performance REST APIs

One of the great things about the JAX-RS specification is that it is very extensible and adding new providers for different mime-types is very easy. One of the interesting binary protocols out there is Google Protocol Buffers. They are designed … Continue reading

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Build your own mail analyzer for Mac Mail.app

You’ve probably read about things like Xoopit and Xobni for analyzing both online mail and your outlook mail. As it turns out, Apple has done something great in this regard that I think has been mostly overlooked. Mail.app stores all … Continue reading

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Using JAX-RS (Jersey) to build a JPA/JAXB-backed JSON REST API

I’ve been looking for a while though to find that perfect combination of frameworks and libraries that would give me the expressive power that I want for building web applications — now I think I’ve found it. Continue reading

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