• Title Restful Web Services
• Author(s) Leonard Richardson, Sam Ruby
• Publisher: O'Reilly Media; First Edition edition (May 15, 2007)
• License(s): CC BY-NC-ND 3.0
• Paperback: 316 pages
• eBook: HTML, PDF, ePub, Mobi (Kindle), Daisy, etc.
• Language: English
• ISBN-13/ASIN: 0596801688
• ISBN-13: 978-0596529260
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Book Description

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 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.

• Leonard Richardson (http://www.crummy.com/) is the author of the Ruby Cookbook (O'Reilly) and of several open source libraries, including Beautiful Soup. A California native, he currently lives in New York.

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