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RESTful Web Services
"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" back into web services. It shows
how you can connect to the programmable web with the
technologies you already use every day. The key is REST, the
architectural style that drives the Web. This book:
Emphasizes the power of basic Web technologies -- the HTTP
application protocol, the URI naming standard, and the XML
markup language
Introduces the Resource-Oriented Architecture (ROA), a
common-sense set of rules for designing RESTful web services
Shows how a RESTful design is simpler, more versatile, and
more scalable than a design based on Remote Procedure Calls
(RPC)
Includes real-world examples of RESTful web services, like
Amazon's Simple Storage Service and the Atom Publishing
Protocol
Discusses web service clients for popular programming
languages
Shows how to implement RESTful services in three popular
frameworks -- Ruby on Rails, Restlet (for Java), and Django
(for Python)
Focuses on practical issues: how to design and implement
RESTful web services and clients
This is the first book that applies the REST design
philosophy to real web services. It sets down the best
practices you need to make your design a success, and the
techniques you need to turn your design into working code.
You can harness the power of the Web for programmable
applications: you just have to work with the Web instead of
against it. This book shows you how.
The Programmable Web and Its Inhabitants
Writing Web Service Clients
What Makes RESTful Services Different?
The Resource-Oriented Architecture
Designing Read-Only Resource-Oriented Services
Designing Read/Write Resource-Oriented Services
A Service Implemetnation
REST and ROA Best Practices
The Building Blocks of Services
The Resource-Oriented Architecture Versus Big Web Services
Ajax Applications as REST Clients
Frameworks for RESTful Services
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