8. Blog Editor Application

A blog is an informal journal, usually personal, that is published on the web. It has a fairly basic data structure and needs a client application to manage it. Typically a blog service provides the client application as a traditional web application and includes a storage and web publishing system as an easy way for users to manage their blogs. Blog services have also led the way in providing public APIs and have increased the popularity of REST-based interfaces, which allow other applications to integrate with their services.

For this sample application we will create a blog editor that can connect to a blog service and interact with their API to manage blogs and blog entries. This application illustrates ...

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