Mark Baker has always worked with distributed systems, starting with DCE and CORBA. When he learned about the Web's REST architectural style, he embraced it as a better way. When the Web Services movement veered away from key RESTful principles -- a uniform interface, hyperlinked representations -- he campaigned vigorously for them. Now, he tells host Jon Udell, REST has won the web, although not yet the enterprise.

Converst rst to docbook

Python-restclient is simple REST client for Python, inspired bythe microframework (Camping, Sinatra) style of specifying actions: get,headput, post, delete.

Google did something smart, which is embedding the version number inside the edit URI you PUT objects to. Clients PUTing to obsolete URIs get back a 409 error with the new editURI. This is simple, effective, and unless you’re dealing with megabytes of d

This article describes the Web Application Description Language (WADL). An increasing number of Web-based enterprises (Google, Yahoo, Amazon, Flickr - to name but a few) are developing HTTP-based applications that provide access to their internal data usi

Here you'll find the language specification and tools for working with WADL descriptions of Web applications.

Roy Fielding's Ph.D. thesis popularized the term REST and defined its principles, there hasn't been a practical guide to the application of those principles. A new book by Leonard Richardson and Sam Ruby, "RESTful Web Services," meets that need.

Now if WS-* technologies wants to own the niche of one proprietary platform technology talking to another in a homogeneous, closed environment...who cares?

RESTful Web Services, by Leonard Richardson and Sam Ruby, was published this month.

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