REST in Practice

This book explores the efficacy of the REST architectural style as a viable alternative for building enterprise-class applications and distributed systems. Three SOA experts explain REST in everyday terms and provide practical techniques for implementing it in your own organizational needs. This book covers basic web techniques for application integration, building scalable applications, and creating RESTful services that use hypermedia to model state transitions and describe business protocols. You will also learn how to make web-based solutions secure and interoperable while understanding the Semantic Web's role in system design.