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RESTful web services: The basics

16 November 2008
Author: Restamon Posted under General

IBM developerWorks has a new tutorial out on the basics of RESTful web services. Alex Rodriguez, a software engineer at IBM focusing on distributed Java technologies and RESTful web services, introduces the general concepts surrounding REST and illustrates the techniques with some nice examples:

Representational State Transfer (REST) has gained widespread acceptance across the Web as a simpler alternative to SOAP- and Web Services Description Language (WSDL)-based Web services. Key evidence of this shift in interface design is the adoption of REST by mainstream Web 2.0 service providers - including Yahoo, Google, and Facebook - who have deprecated or passed on SOAP and WSDL-based interfaces in favor of an easier-to-use, resource-oriented model to expose their services. In this article, Alex Rodriguez introduces you to the basic principles of REST.

Read the entire article here, and check out all of the developerWorks material on REST in their SOA and Web services section.


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