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RESTful Web Services | Leonard Richardson, Sam Ruby
O'Reilly Media, Paperback, Published May 2007, 419 pages, ISBN 0596529260 | List Price: $39.99
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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 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.
About the Authors
Leonard 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.
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