NASA has been using the Eclipse Rich Client Platform (RCP) as the foundation for many of its rover operations tools for several years. Recently, we started using the Equinox project to extend our applications to the server as well. Along the way, we discovered REST, an intuitive, lightweight methodology for building web applications. In this software, we share the techniques that we have learned to combine these technologies into web services that are easy to develop, deploy, and use.

The presentation will also discuss issues associated with maintaining the server side code, securing the web applications, and performance.