Why don't typical enterprise projects go as smoothly as projects you develop for the Web? Does the REST architectural style really present a viable alternative for building distributed systems and enterprise-class applications?

In this insightful book, three SOA experts provide a down-to-earth explanation of REST and demonstrate how you can develop simple and elegant distributed hypermedia systems by applying the Web's guiding principles to common enterprise computing problems. You'll learn techniques for implementing specific Web technologies and patterns to solve the needs of a typical company as it grows from modest beginnings to become a global enterprise.

Learn basic Web techniques for application integration
Use HTTP and the Web's infrastructure to build scalable, fault-tolerant enterprise applications
Discover the Create, Read, Update, Delete (CRUD) pattern for manipulating resources
Build RESTful services that use hypermedia to model state transitions and describe business protocols
Learn how to make Web-based solutions secure and interoperable
Extend integration patterns for event-driven computing with the Atom Syndication Format and implement multi-party interactions in AtomPub
Understand how the Semantic Web will impact systems design

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Format: Trade Paperback
Author: Webber, Jim
ISBN: 9780596805821
Condition: Used
Dimensions: 9.10 x 1.00
Number Of Pages: 448
Publication Year: 2010

REST in Practice

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