REST in Practice
ThoughtWorks' SOA practice head, Jim Webber, works on trustworthy service-oriented systems. Jim previously worked as a senior researcher with the UK E-Science programme, where he created strategies for integrating Grid computing with Web Services practices and architectural patterns for trustworthy Service-Oriented computing. Jim has considerable Web Services architectural and development expertise as an architect with Arjuna Technologies, and he was the primary developer on the industry's first Web Services Transaction solution with Hewlett-Packard.
Why don't typical enterprise initiatives run as smoothly as Web-development projects? Is the REST architectural style a realistic option for developing distributed systems and enterprise-class applications?
Three SOA specialists explain REST in layman's terms and show how to create simple and elegant distributed hypermedia systems by applying the Web's guiding principles to typical enterprise computing problems in this enlightening book. In REST in Practice, you'll learn how to use certain Web technologies and patterns to meet the needs of a typical business as it expands from humble beginnings to become a worldwide corporation.
- Learn the fundamentals of Web application integration.
- Build scalable, fault-tolerant enterprise apps with HTTP and the Web's infrastructure.
- Learn how to manipulate resources using the Create, Read, Update, Delete (CRUD) pattern.
- Create RESTful services that model state transitions and specify business protocols using hypermedia.
- Learn how to protect and interoperate Web-based systems.
- Extend event-driven computing integration patterns with the Atom Syndication Format and enable multi-party interactions in AtomPub.
- Learn how the Semantic Web will affect system design.
Author: Ian Robinson, Jim Webber and Savas Parastatidis
Link to buy: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0596805829
Ratings: 4.0 out of 5 stars (from 78 reviews)
Best Sellers Rank: #1,041,265 in Books
#370 in Computer Hardware Design & Architecture
#416 in Web Services
#905 in Software Design & Engineering
