At Fluent 2013, O’Reilly’s Web Platform, JavaScript and HTML5 conference, Layer 7 Principal API Architect Mike Amundsen demonstrated how to build hypermedia clients, for situations with and without humans in the driver’s seat.
(If you’d like to know more about hypermedia in general, this interview provides more background.)
In his talk, Implementing Hypermedia Clients: It’s Not Rocket Science, Mike explored how hypermedia approaches drive conversation between clients and servers, and the application structures that result from those structures.
- 1:44 – “The Semantic Gap: Hypermedia tells us what we can do, but it doesn’t say why.”
- 6:04 – Hypermedia and application control information – links!
- 8:09 – Control factors – “I accept RSS, can you give me RSS?”
- 10:41 – Foundations of the class scheduling domain example
- 16:30 – “What is a hypermedia client that a human would use?”
- 19:24 – “Faithful Hypermedia Clients (FHCs) pass along whatever the server returns, and lets a human sort it out.”
- 31:20 – “So what’s a Hypermedia for machine client?… Makes choices, not waiting for a human”
- 33:25 – Working with Maze+XML
- 37:10 – The power of generic types
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