Take a look at the importance of equals and hashcode, something even experienced developers decide to ignore. See the role it plays in biased locking and more.
Here is an annotated list of security guidelines for your REST APIs when you are developing and testing them, including proper authorization, input validation, and output encoding.
ScheduledService lets you execute the same task a regular intervals and can even restart itself in the event of a failure, making it a good tool to have in the box.
Learn how to place policies under Integration Server, attach a policy to web service descriptor, and pass message-based authentication credentials with web service.
If you want your message flow to scale, it takes some work. This proposal, using Apache Camel, let's you handle high volume requests with a variety of databases.
The author provides five criteria to help you make the distinction between an API that is RESTful based on the original meaning versus the colloquial meaning of REST.
Software-defined everything seems to be everywhere these days. In this article, Olga Annenko discusses software-defined integration and what it should mean to you.