RESTful Web Services
TITLE : RESTful Web Services [ILLUSTRATED] (Paperback)
AUTHOR : by Leonard Richardson (Author), Sam Ruby (Author), David Heinemeier Hansson (Foreword)
PUBLISHER : O’Reilly Media publisher
ISBN : 0596529260
EDITION : 1st
PUB DATE : May 08, 2007
LANGUAGE : English
“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.
URL: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0596529260/
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