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Book:   RESTful Web Services
Subject:   Very educational
Date:   2009-01-12 07:51:33
From:   in2clouds
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This is a very interesting and very educational book. The subject is very relevant and the authors are very knowledgeable. I hesitated a bit before ordering b/c I have read a few negative reviews stating that the content was very redundant. I think there are some chapters that could be streamlined but I appreciated the author's thoroughness and methodical approach. It is true that the REST concepts are repeated throughout the book but I think that was by design. To show conceptual consistency across technologies and applications. I also think it was done to provide a step by step practitioner's approach to REST. I found this book to be a great one-stop resource for REST and before reading it I had struggled to find clear definitions and practical examples with code online. I recommend this book to beginners and intermediate REST readers. Experienced people might not find enough "juice".

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"Every IT generation has its seminal tome that transcends time and connects the dots in a way that no book had before it...RESTful Web Services will be, in my opinion, that book for the 2000s Web services generation."
--Thomas Beck, Beckshome.com: Thomas Beck's Blog