Restful Web Services

by Richardson, Leonard

• ISBN13: 9780596529260
• ISBN10: 0596529260
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-05-01
• Publisher: Oreilly & Associates Inc

Summary

This easy-to-understand reference shows how to use the Representational StateTransfer Web architecture, or REST, to provide services over the Web that are fundamentally simple, both for producers and the consumers.

Author Biography

Leonard Richardson (http://www.crummy.com/) is the author of the Ruby Cookbook (O'Reilly) and of several open source libraries, including Beautiful Soup. A California native, he currently lives in New York.

Sam Ruby is a prominent software developer who has made significant contributions to the many of the Apache Software Foundation's open source projects, and to the standardization of web feeds via his involvement with the Atom web feed standard and the popular Feed Validator web service.

He currently holds a Senior Technical Staff Member position in the Emerging Technologies Group of IBM. He resides in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Table of Contents

The programmable Web and its inhabitants	p. 1
Writing Web service clients	p. 23
What makes RESTful services different?	p. 49
The resource-oriented architecture	p. 79
Designing read-only resource-oriented services	p. 107
Designing read/write resource-oriented services	p. 143
A service implementation	p. 167
Rest and ROA best practices	p. 215
The building blocks of services	p. 259
The resource-oriented architecture versus big Web services	p. 299
Ajax applications as rest clients	p. 315
Frameworks for RESTful services	p. 339
Some resources for REST and some RESTful resources	p. 365
The HTTP response code top 42	p. 371
The HTTP header top infinity	p. 389
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