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REST in Practice

iOS iPhone

By Jim Webber, Savas Parastatidis, Ian Robinson
Published by O'Reilly Media (http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596805838)

Discover Why REST is Perfect for Building Distributed Systems

In this insightful ebook, 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

About the Authors

Jim Webber, a director with ThoughtWorks, works on dependable distributed systems.

Savas Parastatidis, an architect at Microsoft, works on a platform for large-scale data- and compute-intensive applications.

Ian Robinson, a principal consultant with ThoughtWorks, helps clients create sustainable, service-oriented development capabilities from inception to operation.

Superb Reading Features

Through a partnership between O'Reilly Media and Lexcycle, this app includes the same features that have made Stanza an iPhone phenomenon with over a million downloads:
* Full book text search
* Several fonts and themes to choose from
* Built-in dictionary
* The ability to add annotations
* Landscape view
* Extensive cross-referencing and working hyperlinks
* Zoom function for images and screenshots

About O'Reilly Media

O'Reilly Media spreads the knowledge of innovators through its books, online services, magazines, research, and conferences. Whether it's delivered in print, online, or in person, everything O'Reilly produces reflects the company's unshakeable belief in the power of information to spur innovation. Learn more about Ebooks from O'Reilly at oreilly.com/ebooks.

About Lexcycle

Lexcycle is the creator of Stanza Bookbinder which was used to create this standalone book application. Stanza Bookbinder is based on the popular iPhone Ebook reading application, Stanza. For more information about Stanza, visit www.lexcycle.com.