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| Book: | RESTful Web Services | |
| Subject: | Eye-opener for REST | |
| Date: | 2009-04-07 07:09:15 | |
| From: | Grzegorz Borkowski | |
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For a long time I've heard much about REST, RESTful etc. It sounded interesting, but vague. I've read definitions of REST on wiki, then I also read many articles about this technology, but still I wasn't able to clearly see what it's all about and how to use it. They always talked about "representations", "connectivity", etc. but it all looked too much theoretical. Finally, I've found this book and read it from cover to cover. This was eye-opener for me. After reading this book, I finally understand what is REST, I know how to use it, I know all (or most) the gotchas and recipes, and I'm a big fan of REST. This technology is fantastic, and the book is really definitive guide to it. I recommend it to anybody who wants to start playing with REST. From my perspective, this book has only one disadvantage: all examples are in Ruby, and I'm Java programmer, so sometimes it looked a bit cryptic to me. But of course, you can understand the general meaning of the code even if you don't know Ruby - besides, everything is described in the text anyway. |
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