Last updated : Jan 28, 2015
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Jan 2015
Trial
Worth pursuing. It is important to understand how to build up this capability. Enterprises should try this technology on a project that can handle the risk.
We see lots of teams creating RESTful interfaces without paying any attention to hypermedia. HAL is a simple format for incorporating hyperlinks into JSON representations which is easy to implement and consume. HAL is well supported by libraries for parsing and representing JSON, and there are HAL-aware REST client libraries such as Hyperclient which make it easy to navigate resources by following links.
Jul 2014
Trial
Worth pursuing. It is important to understand how to build up this capability. Enterprises should try this technology on a project that can handle the risk.
We see lots of teams creating RESTful interfaces without paying any attention to hypermedia. HAL is a simple format for incorporating hyperlinks into JSON representations which is easy to implement and consume. HAL is well supported by libraries for parsing and representing JSON, and there are HAL-aware REST client libraries such as Hyperclient which make it easy to navigate resources by following links.
Published : Jul 08, 2014
