iPhone & Java Web Services, Take 2

iPhone Development and Java Web Services Take 2 Matthew McCullough, Ambient Ideas, LLC

Why the iPhone?

Overtaken Blackberry in sales

even Overtaken Moto RAZR in sales

2,000,000 apps sold as of Oct 21, 2008

300,000, 000 as of Dec 8, 2008

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Why Web Services?

Web Service Languages C# C Perl Python C++ Java Ruby NET PHP .

Independent of Platform Headless ESB Consumed by any type of app ktop es D SOA RIA

network aware Nearly EVERY app is becoming

iPhone SOAP/REST/HTTP Java Web Objective C Services

Web Services Java

JWS Tools IntelliJ NetBeans Native WS SOA Plugin support Eclipse Maven SOA Plugin Axis Archetype Jersey Archetype

RESTful vs SOAPful

REST http://localhost/drawing/

Java Web Service Servers JAX-WS Axis JAX-RS JSR311, Glassfish component “Jersey” Java 6 Local HTTP server APT, or BARE needed for SOAP

Java REST Demo

iPhone Objective C

iPhone Dev Process Free Membership • SDK • Simulator Paid Membership • Provisioning • Deploy to Dev Device • Digitally Sign Apps • App Store

iPhone Dev Tools • Dashcode = JavaScript •Interface Builder, NIBs •XCode

Objective C • No Garbage Collector • GC only on Mac OSX Desktop • Manual Release of Memory • But we can use autorelease pools •C with Objects

Objective C REST • Minimal Parsing • Text Based (Primarily) •Simple HTTP request • Changing of request types • @GET, @POST, @PUT

iPhone REST Demo

Memory Leaks

Provisioning Annoyances

Objective C XML • SOAP • Heavy Wrappers, Headers, No Libs • Help with XML Parsing • NSXMLParser API

other ways to load your App

Trench Coat App Store SSH Terminal Multilanguage Dictionaries Hacking tools 1000s of other free seedy apps

Other dev Tools

SOAPui Apache TCPMon TCPDump Firefox Poster Netbeans WS/REST Tester CURL

next What’s • Java • Native? Sun has promised • Flash • Native? Adobe has pledged • Ruby • http://github.com/rhomobile/rhodes/tree/ master

Takeaways • iPhone Dev is Challenging • Application process painful • Manual memory management • Cryptic APIs • Java Web Services are Easy • Minimal Gotchas • Rest vs SOAP decisions

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iPhone & Java Web Services, Take 2

by Matthew McCullough on Jan 17, 2009

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