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Web services for the real world
By Leonard Richardson and Sam Ruby

"RESTful Web Services" was published by O'Reilly Media in May 2007 and it has 448 pages.
“RESTful Web Services” Metadata:
- Title: RESTful Web Services
- Authors: Leonard RichardsonSam Ruby
- Number of Pages: 448
- Publisher: O'Reilly Media
- Publish Date: May 2007
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Edition Specifications:
- Format: Paperback
Edition Identifiers:
- The Open Library ID: OL24649294M - OL15738536W
- Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) ID: 82671871
- Library of Congress Control Number (LCCN): 2007278140
- ISBN-13: 9780596529260
- All ISBNs: 9780596529260
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"RESTful Web Services" Table Of Contents:
- 1- Chapter 1 The Programmable Web and Its Inhabitants
- 2- Kinds of Things on the Programmable Web
- 3- HTTP: Documents in Envelopes
- 4- Method Information
- 5- Scoping Information
- 6- The Competing Architectures
- 7- Technologies on the Programmable Web
- 8- Leftover Terminology
- 9- Chapter 2 Writing Web Service Clients
- 10- Web Services Are Web Sites
- 11- del.icio.us: The Sample Application
- 12- Making the Request: HTTP Libraries
- 13- Processing the Response: XML Parsers
- 14- JSON Parsers: Handling Serialized Data
- 15- Clients Made Easy with WADL
- 16- Chapter 3 What Makes RESTful Services Different?
- 17- Introducing the Simple Storage Service
- 18- Object-Oriented Design of S3
- 19- Resources
- 20- HTTP Response Codes
- 21- An S3 Client
- 22- Request Signing and Access Control
- 23- Using the S3 Client Library
- 24- Clients Made Transparent with ActiveResource
- 25- Parting Words
- 26- Chapter 4 The Resource-Oriented Architecture
- 27- Resource-Oriented What Now?
- 28- What’s a Resource?
- 29- URIs
- 30- Addressability
- 31- Statelessness
- 32- Representations
- 33- Links and Connectedness
- 34- The Uniform Interface
- 35- * That’s It!
- 36- Chapter 5 Designing Read-Only Resource-Oriented Services
- 37- Resource Design
- 38- Turning Requirements Into Read-Only Resources
- 39- Figure Out the Data Set
- 40- Split the Data Set into Resources
- 41- Name the Resources
- 42- Design Your Representations
- 43- Link the Resources to Each Other
- 44- The HTTP Response
- 45- Conclusion
- 46- Chapter 6 Designing Read/Write Resource-Oriented Services
- 47- User Accounts as Resources
- 48- Custom Places
- 49- A Look Back at the Map Service
- 50- Chapter 7 A Service Implementation
- 51- A Social Bookmarking Web Service
- 52- Figuring Out the Data Set
- 53- Resource Design
- 54- Design the Representation(s) Accepted from the Client
- 55- Design the Representation(s) Served to the Client
- 56- Connect Resources to Each Other
- 57- What’s Supposed to Happen?
- 58- What Might Go Wrong?
- 59- Controller Code
- 60- Model Code
- 61- What Does the Client Need to Know?
- 62- Chapter 8 REST and ROA Best Practices
- 63- Resource-Oriented Basics
- 64- The Generic ROA Procedure
- 65- Addressability
- 66- State and Statelessness
- 67- Connectedness
- 68- The Uniform Interface
- 69- This Stuff Matters
- 70- Resource Design
- 71- URI Design
- 72- Outgoing Representations
- 73- Incoming Representations
- 74- Service Versioning
- 75- Permanent URIs Versus Readable URIs
- 76- Standard Features of HTTP
- 77- Faking PUT and DELETE
- 78- The Trouble with Cookies
- 79- Why Should a User Trust the HTTP Client?
- 80- Chapter 9 The Building Blocks of Services
- 81- Representation Formats
- 82- Prepackaged Control Flows
- 83- Hypermedia Technologies
- 84- Chapter 10 The Resource-Oriented Architecture Versus Big Web Services
- 85- What Problems Are Big Web Services Trying to Solve?
- 86- SOAP
- 87- WSDL
- 88- UDDI
- 89- Security
- 90- Reliable Messaging
- 91- Transactions
- 92- BPEL, ESB, and SOA
- 93- Conclusion
- 94- Chapter 11 Ajax Applications as REST Clients
- 95- From AJAX to Ajax
- 96- The Ajax Architecture
- 97- A del.icio.us Example
- 98- The Advantages of Ajax
- 99- The Disadvantages of Ajax
- 100- REST Goes Better
- 101- Making the Request
- 102- Handling the Response
- 103- JSON
- 104- Don’t Bogart the Benefits of REST
- 105- Cross-Browser Issues and Ajax Libraries
- 106- Subverting the Browser Security Model
- 107- Chapter 12 Frameworks for RESTful Services
- 108- Ruby on Rails
- 109- Restlet
- 110- Django
- 111- Appendix Some Resources for REST and Some RESTful Resources
- 112- Standards and Guides
- 113- Services You Can Use
- 114- Appendix The HTTP Response Code Top 42
- 115- Three to Seven Status Codes: The Bare Minimum
- 116- 1xx: Meta
- 117- 2xx: Success
- 118- 3xx: Redirection
- 119- 4xx: Client-Side Error
- 120- 5xx: Server-Side Error
- 121- Appendix The HTTP Header Top Infinity
- 122- Standard Headers
- 123- Nonstandard Headers
- 124- Colophon
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