World Bank Open API 2.0 Launched

World Bank has been collecting massive amounts of data, for the past 50+ years, and now possesses one of the richest repository of information about economic development in the world. Phase2 Technology had the pleasure of helping World Bank architect and engineer a new major release of its Open API 2.0

As we steadily approach the next era online where open data and the semantic web gives us more than we ever dreamed, the launch of each new major web-services API is significant. When a rich and unique data repository like the World Bank's opens its data for free, a world of possibilities opens up.

RESTful URL Support in Apache Struts 2

With the explosion of web frameworks such as Ruby on Rails that advocate (and even dictate) that you use RESTful URLs for your applications, I was shocked when I discovered that Apache’s Struts 2 Java web framework does not provide near the same level of support for this behavior.