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REST in Practice 1st Edition

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Why don't typical enterprise projects go as smoothly as projects you develop for the Web? Does the REST architectural style really present a viable alternative for building distributed systems and enterprise-class applications?

In this insightful book, 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
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Jim Webber is the SOA practice lead for ThoughtWorks where he works on dependable service-oriented systems. Jim was formerly a senior researcher with the UK E-Science programme where he developed strategies for aligning Grid computing with Web Services practices and architectural patterns for dependable Service-Oriented computing. Jim has extensive Web Services architecture and development experience as an architect with Arjuna Technologies and was the lead developer with Hewlett-Packard on the industry's first Web Services Transaction solution. Jim is an active speaker in the Web Services space and is co-author of the book "Developing Enterprise Web Services - An Architect's Guide." Jim holds a B.Sc. in Computing Science and Ph.D. in Parallel Computing both from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. His blog is located at http://jim.webber.name.

Savas Parastatidis is a Developer in Microsoft's Technical Computing Cloud group, working on a platform for large scale data- and compute-intensive technologies. Previously he was part of Microsoft's Bing group where he focused on semantic and knowledge representation technologies. He also spent time in Microsoft Research where he led the design and implementation of a number of tools for scientists and a platform for semantic computing applications called Zentity. He originally joined Microsoft as part of the architecture team in the Connected System Division doing the initial work for the Oslo (M language) modeling platform. Prior to joining Microsoft, Savas was a Principal Research Associate at the University of Newcastle where he undertook research in the areas of distributed, service-oriented computing and e-Science. He was also the Chief Software Architect at the North-East Regional e-Science Centre where he oversaw the architecture and the application of Web Services technologies for a number of large research projects. Savas also worked as a Senior Software Engineer for Hewlett Packard where he co-lead the R&D effort for the industry's Web Service transactions service and protocol. Savas' blog is located at http://savas.me.

Ian Robinson is a Principal Consultant with ThoughtWorks, where he specialises in helping clients create sustainable service-oriented development capabilities that align business and IT from inception through to operation. He has written guidance for Microsoft on implementing service-oriented systems with Microsoft technologies, and has published articles on business-oriented development methodologies and distributed systems design - most recently in The ThoughtWorks Anthology (Pragmatic Programmers, 2008). He presents at conferences worldwide on RESTful enterprise integration and distributed systems design and delivery.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ O'Reilly Media; 1st edition (October 26, 2010)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 446 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0596805829
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0596805821
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.66 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7 x 1 x 9.19 inches
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Customers find the book's content very good, great, and thorough. They also appreciate the worked-out examples of design issues solved and the example of implementing actual business processes through hypermedia. Readers also mention that the book has plenty of code examples that you can download for.Net and Java.

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William Steinberg
5.0 out of 5 stars Thorough, well written.
Reviewed in the United States on July 8, 2013
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This book explains REST in a platform generic way. The author explains the levels of REST compliance, and why you would want to be RESTful in the first place. You are guided step by step, finally building a fully RESTful server side code.

This book does get dirty, but it is at its best in provided slow, careful explanations of each step.

This is not a book that you will read in one night. Take your time, and the understanding will come.
After all, REST is much more than Remote Procedural Calls.

If you want to thoroughly understand REST, get and read this book.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Almost four stars - maybe 3.7?
Reviewed in the United States on April 30, 2011
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With so few books on REST it is hard to judge. With the two worthwhile books that are out there; this one and RESTful web services it was hard for me to choose which one to buy. I ended up choosing this one because I wanted something that gave me an overall view of Rest before getting into details. While the web services book goes into more depth in areas plus has great examples in Ruby (which I'm coding in) I had wanted something that would give me a better foundation and description of the problems that Rest solves. I found that in this book.
The book builds up its description with great diagrams and code snippets (no pages among pages of code dumps yay!). The one are that I found not so useful for me was there was a fair amount of the book that was spent on ATOM syndication. While it was interesting I didn't really see the point of getting into that much depth for a book on Restful foundation. I might be more useful for someone else who is implementing something with ATOM feeds; for me its not the case. The other part was that there are examples in both .net and in Java. I think the author should of chose one language to stick with. I would say Java (or better yet in JRuby).

Other than that it was very well explained for anyone who wants to get a good overview and code examples on how to begin.
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Mukesh
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent book on REST
Reviewed in the United States on March 8, 2016
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It's a great resource for someone who is new to REST as well as for an experienced developer. It's very well written and is an easy read with lots of information on not just REST but also related topics like OpenID and OAuth. Only the rant against WSDL and Web Services was kind of unnecessary.
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jdb
3.0 out of 5 stars a good theory book for beginners
Reviewed in the United States on July 26, 2016
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I learned a lot from this book. Probably could use less "fodder" in the form of C# and Java implementation code. Conceptually, though, it's a very good start to REST.
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Kasler Lóránd Péter
5.0 out of 5 stars REST done right
Reviewed in the United States on May 15, 2014
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The book explains along with several practical advices, why is REST important, as originally envisioned by Roy Fielding. It describes step-by-step every "level" of REST, starting from basic xml over http, all the way to Hypermedia Nirvana, highlighting along the way the key weaknesses of using only that part of the whole REST.
It also presents much of the Atom ecosystem, both the format and the protocol and formats for Hypermedia Controls. Presents the inner workings of a pull based system, that could expose an Atom REST API. Touches Security and makes the case against SOAP based services.
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Magnus Lassi
4.0 out of 5 stars Great REST / hypermedia architectural book
Reviewed in the United States on September 15, 2014
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This is a good introduction how to build a solid REST API and implement hypermedia. It's a little dated and uses Atom as the hypermedia format example instead of a newer format such as HAL but the concepts are still the same and can easily be applied to other hypermedia format. It has a good example of a coffee shop, Restbucks that they build upon in the different chapters. It makes a really good case for hypermedia and the good reasons to use it. So many of the books on REST are so focused CRUD based REST services and the implementation which is one reason why this book is so good since it looks at it from the architectural perspective and the different things to consider. They also have plenty of code examples that you can download for .Net and Java.
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kalarkar
1.0 out of 5 stars No Java sample code available with this book
Reviewed in the United States on October 25, 2011
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I bought this book by reading the reviews submitted by different readers. But really disappointed when I found that there is no sample code available in Java. Without sample code this book is useless as you cannot understand the examples that book is talking about. I won't recommend this book to anyone who wants to learn REST.
I am adding more to my review. I haven't seen such a bad book. All the positive review written in it favor are all deceptive. Judge yourself by looking at the source code for this book at this location.[...] Most of chapters have examples purely for .NET developer and nothing for Java. For example Chapter 8.
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Brandon A. Boyd
5.0 out of 5 stars Reference material
Reviewed in the United States on April 14, 2020
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Very comprehensive, includes XML and soap designs for comparison to more modern architecture.
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Roger
5.0 out of 5 stars Perfeito para começar a entender REST
Reviewed in Brazil on May 18, 2017
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Excelente texto, bem didático. Na parte de dos exemplos de codificação pressupõe que o leitor já conheça algumas bibliotecas do Java ou .Net. Finalmente entendi HATEOAS.
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Fabio Panzieri
5.0 out of 5 stars Ottimo testo su architetture REST
Reviewed in Italy on February 22, 2017
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Questo volume discute le architetture REST in modo esaustivo, chiaro e con un forte taglio pragmatico. Penso possa essere molto utile a chi voglia approfondire lo studio di queste archietture e a chi debba effettivamente implementarle.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Good read for anyone building APIs
Reviewed in Australia on December 25, 2017
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I found this a well structured read with enough detail to understand the different levels of maturity around REST APIs and how to implement them securely and handle consistency vs latency. The comparisons and reflections on Web service technology helped put into perspective the evolution of web technologies.
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anortef
5.0 out of 5 stars La diferencia para comprender REST
Reviewed in Spain on February 18, 2016
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Un gran libro necesario para comprender que es REST, como usarlo y cuando usarlo. Se lo recomiendo a todo programador.
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Sivaramakrishnan
1.0 out of 5 stars One Star
Reviewed in India on August 24, 2015
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Excellent Book ! Good to have
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