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REST in Practice: HTTP Security Essentials

By chco : 29 October 2010 - 09:59 AM
This excerpt from REST in Practice covers HTTP security. A coffee shop called Restbucks is used for the examples.HTTP Authentication and Authorization As we’ve often seen on the World Wide Web, HTT...
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REST in Practice: How to Implement AtomPub in .NET

By chco : 25 October 2010 - 06:17 AM
This excerpt from REST in Practice walks you through the fulfillment service of a coffee shop called Restbucks to show how AtomPub can be implemented in .NET. In this section, we show how Restbucks ...
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REST in Practice: How to use Atom for Event-Driven Systems

By chco : 20 October 2010 - 04:44 AM
Atom is an XML-based hypermedia format for representing timestamped lists of web content and metadata such as blog postings and news articles. The following excerpt from REST in Practice shows you how...
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REST in Practice: How to Implement a Hypermedia Service in Java

By chco : 14 October 2010 - 03:39 AM
The following excerpt from REST in Practice describes how to build a RESTful service that use hypermedia to model state transitions and describe business protocols. This particular example models the...
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Looking for replacement for CouchDB that has REST / JSON API and good query support

Asked by markfink : 03 August 2010 - 10:33 PM

Answered by dampier : Dec 10 2010 09:41 PM
MongoLab is doing an elegant job of putting a RESTful facade on top of MongoDB. The API is clean and lightweight, and of course with MongoDB interactive / ad-hoc queries are not a problem. MongoLab ... full answer >
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How to Use Links to Manage Application Flow

By adfm : 13 May 2010 - 01:03 PM
If you're building a web service and would like to use links to control application flow on the server, but don't know where to start, try this recipe from Subbu Allamaraju's RESTful Web Services Co...
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How to Document RESTful Web Services

By adfm : 22 April 2010 - 03:19 PM
Have you just created the ultimate RESTful interface for a revolutionary new web service and now want to document it? Good thing there's this excerpt from Subbu Allamaraju's RESTful Web Services Coo...
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How to Use Three-Legged OAuth

By adfm : 20 April 2010 - 04:35 PM
Do you have a web service that you'd like to set up authentication on? OAuth is a popular tool to accomplish this task. In this excerpt from Subbu Allamaraju's RESTful Web Services Cookbook you'll l...
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How to Version RESTful Web Services

By adfm : 15 April 2010 - 04:07 PM
You think you're going to keep the same interface forever, but the truth is you can't anticipate every use case. You'll eventually want to introduce a new version. That's where this excerpt from Sub...
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How to Keep URIs Cool

By adfm : 15 April 2010 - 12:25 PM
Users can get frustrated and services break when links fall dead. Since URIs are a key part of the interface between clients and servers, it is important to keep them “cool,” i.e., stable and pe...
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