REST in Practice

Why do enterprise projects often encounter more challenges compared to web development projects? Can the REST architectural style truly serve as a promising alternative for creating distributed systems and enterprise-level applications? In this engaging book, three SOA experts deliver a comprehensive explanation of REST and illustrate how to craft simple yet effective distributed hypermedia systems by utilizing the fundamental principles of the Web to tackle typical enterprise computing challenges. You’ll explore methods for deploying specific web technologies and patterns that address the evolving needs of a company as it expands from small beginnings into a worldwide presence. Discover essential web techniques for application integration and leverage HTTP and the web’s infrastructure to develop scalable, fault-tolerant enterprise solutions. Gain insight into the Create, Read, Update, Delete (CRUD) pattern for resource management and how to construct RESTful services that utilize hypermedia to model state transitions and outline business protocols. Learn ways to ensure secure and interoperable web-based solutions and extend integration patterns for event-driven computing with the Atom Syndication Format. Implement multi-party interactions in AtomPub and understand the potential impact of the Semantic Web on system design.