RESTful Web Services

Web Services for the Real World

419 pages

English language

Published May 8, 2007 by O'Reilly Media, Inc..

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978-0-596-52926-0
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"Every developer working with the Web needs to read this book." -- David Heinemeier Hansson, creator of the Rails framework

"RESTful Web Services finally provides a practical roadmap for constructing services that embrace the Web, instead of trying to route around it." -- Adam Trachtenberg, PHP author and EBay Web Services Evangelist

You've built web sites that can be used by humans. But can you also build web sites that are usable by machines? That's where the future lies, and that's what RESTful Web Services shows you how to do. The World Wide Web is the most popular distributed application in history, and Web services and mashups have turned it into a powerful distributed computing platform. But today's web service technologies have lost sight of the simplicity that made the Web successful. They don't work like the Web, and they're missing out on its advantages.

This book puts the "Web" …

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The author does an excellent job of explaining the concepts of REST and providing detailed guidance on how to design and implement RESTful web services. The book covers a wide range of topics, including REST principles, resource design, and URI design, as well as more advanced topics such as caching and security. It also includes many code examples and case studies that demonstrate how to use REST to build real-world web services.

One of the best things about this book is the author's attention to detail and the depth of the coverage of the topics. The book is also well-organized, with each chapter building on the previous one, making it easy for readers to follow along and learn at their own pace. The book also provides a good balance between theory and practice.