Representational state transfer (REST) is a style of designing loosely coupled applications that rely on named resources rather than messages. Using the open source Restlet framework makes building RESTful Web services a snap. This tutorial guides you step-by-step through the fundamental concepts of REST and building applications with Restlets.

AIX provides a vast array of commands to handle user and group management. This article discusses some of these core security commands and provides a list that you can use as a ready reference.

Utility-class development and maintenance eats into programmer time. Boost simplifies the process by providing several high-quality libraries that you can easily integrate into your existing code base. This article gives a quick overview of some of the more popular Boost utility classes and helps you understand how to put them to work.

Download the IBM Rational Requirements Composer V7.1 open beta code and enhance your requirements elicitation and definition capabilities with this easy-to-use visualization and collaboration toolset.

This article covers the advanced security features of IBM AIX V6.1, Trusted Execution environment. It educates AIX system administrators on how to ensure system integrity at run-time as well as at stand-by time. This article, which acts as a starting point to learn about the Trusted Execution environment, also covers the most commonly used commands and examples.

In a Kerberos environment, protecting principals' passwords is imperative to preserve the system security. Learn how Kerberos administrators can take advantage of the password protection and password strength enhancement features provided by IBM Network Authentication Service (NAS) for AIX.

Discover how you can deliver Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) based applications with speed and quality in the SIP application delivery eKit. This complimentary eKit provides a collection of materials like articles, podcasts, webcasts, and demos to help you understand how to use IBM Rational software to model, code and test SIP-based applications.

Visit IBM developerWorks to download a free trial version of IBM Rational Team Concert, a member of the Rational Team Concert family of products built on the Jazz Technology Platform. Jazz is a scalable, extensible team collaboration platform for seamlessly integrating tasks across the software lifecycle.

Integrate an Agile planning tool with Rational Team Concert and the Jazz platform for greater visibility, collaboration, traceability, and development productivity. Use the Scrum method of project management to ensure the most valuable features are built in the shortest possible time. And, download a trial of Rational Team Concert for free.

Participate in the open beta program for IBM Rational Quality Manager, a collaborative, web-based quality management solution for test planning, workflow control, and tracking and metrics reporting. Rational Quality Manager enables you to quantify how project decisions and deliverables impact and align with business objectives.

The IBM AIX operating system has kept to what's important: stability, functionality, robustness. And it has done it by keeping a strong command-line interface (CLI). If you never learned to use the CLI or need a refresher on its basics, read on.

Program performance is always a concern, even in this era of high-performance hardware. This article, the second in a two-part series, covers the statistics of benchmarking and offers a framework you can use to benchmark Java code ranging from self-contained microbenchmarks to code that calls a full application.

A systems administrator always needs to be cognizant of system performance. This article drills down into the many aspects of tuning AIX to run Oracle. We'll look at the Virtual Memory Manager (VMM), CPU, Memory, and I/O (disk and network).

Download a free trial version of WebSphere Message Broker V6.1, an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) built for universal connectivity and transformation in heterogeneous IT environments.

Assigning disks from storage disks (IBM System Storage DS8000/DS6000) to an IBM AIX host using GUI is easy but time consuming. This article explains an easier and faster way of assigning disks. You can use the this procedure to automate the disk-assigning process.