RESTful Web Services
by: Leonard Richardson, Sam Ruby
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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" 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 threepopular 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.
"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 threepopular 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.
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- A ReST Manifesto
This is both a manifesto for what the authors term 'REST-Oriented Architecture' (ROA), and a technical dive into the mechanics and semantics of REST. It comes as a big breath of fresh air after years of being harangued by the putative benefits of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) with its plethora of web-service standards centered on XML, SOAP, and WSDL, and the many competing and largely incompatible SOA toolkits.
REST (or ReST) stands for 'Representational State Transfer', a term ... Read More
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- Disappointed with all those 5 Stars
Bought the book seeing all the five star reviews, but was kind of disappointed. Too much fluff. The author could have done without all the bashing of Big Company (Microsoft) SOAP based web service.
Even after reading 4 chapters I am not sure If this book gave a clear distinction between a "RESTFul" web service and a XML Web Services.
All I gathered was
RESTFul Webservice = All Web Services - XML RPC (or SOAP)
On a side note all the analogy in ... Read More
Rating: - A good read for every web programmer
The term "REST web service" is often abused.This book gives a very clear idea of what true RESTful web services should be like (and even goes as far as to propose a "Resource Oriented Architecture").Insight into HTTP methods & status codes, URI design, resources & modeling data, and pertinent examples from modern frameworks like django and rails, make this book so useful.If you're a developer and not planning on building a RESTful web service, it is still a great read.RESTful ideas can be applied ... Read More
Rating: - nice book
I received this book in three days, which was a fast delivery. I am still working on this book, but I must say I like this book.
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- Solid Coverage of An Important Platform
Useful not just as a guide to working with web services but also provides a solid overview of what constitutes a good computing platform in general. Restful web services are more important and useful than most people realize but this book provides an immediate update for anyone working in computing.
- A ReST ManifestoThis is both a manifesto for what the authors term 'REST-Oriented Architecture' (ROA), and a technical dive into the mechanics and semantics of REST. It comes as a big breath of fresh air after years of being harangued by the putative benefits of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) with its plethora of web-service standards centered on XML, SOAP, and WSDL, and the many competing and largely incompatible SOA toolkits.
REST (or ReST) stands for 'Representational State Transfer', a term ... Read More
- Disappointed with all those 5 StarsBought the book seeing all the five star reviews, but was kind of disappointed. Too much fluff. The author could have done without all the bashing of Big Company (Microsoft) SOAP based web service.
Even after reading 4 chapters I am not sure If this book gave a clear distinction between a "RESTFul" web service and a XML Web Services.
All I gathered was
RESTFul Webservice = All Web Services - XML RPC (or SOAP)
On a side note all the analogy in ... Read More
- A good read for every web programmerThe term "REST web service" is often abused.This book gives a very clear idea of what true RESTful web services should be like (and even goes as far as to propose a "Resource Oriented Architecture").Insight into HTTP methods & status codes, URI design, resources & modeling data, and pertinent examples from modern frameworks like django and rails, make this book so useful.If you're a developer and not planning on building a RESTful web service, it is still a great read.RESTful ideas can be applied ... Read More
- nice book I received this book in three days, which was a fast delivery. I am still working on this book, but I must say I like this book.
- Solid Coverage of An Important PlatformUseful not just as a guide to working with web services but also provides a solid overview of what constitutes a good computing platform in general. Restful web services are more important and useful than most people realize but this book provides an immediate update for anyone working in computing.
