This book puts the "Web" back into web services. It explains 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. RESTful Web Services:
- 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
- Reveals how a RESTful design is simpler, more versatile, and more scalable than a design based on Remote Procedure Calls (RPCs)
- 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
- Demonstrates how to implement RESTful services in three popular frameworks—Ruby on Rails, Restlet (for Java), and Django (for Python)
- Focuses on practical issues, such as how to design and implement RESTful web services and clients
RESTful Web Services 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.
About the AuthorLeonard Richardson has been programming since he was eight. Recently the quality of his code has improved somewhat. He is responsible for libraries in many languages, including Rubyful Soup. A California native, he now works in New York. He maintains a website at http://www.crummy.com/. Sam Ruby takes a perverse pleasure in integrating disparate things. He is a Vice President of the Apache Software Foundation, chairman of the Jakarta project, member of the XML PMC. He is an officer of ECMA and convener of the TC39 group standardizing the CLI for DotNet. He is a member of the PHP group, and developer on the Apache Soap and Bean Scripting Framework projects. He is currently employed by IBM.
