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REST In Practice: Hypermedia And Systems Architecture (2010)

by Jim Webber(Favorite Author)

3.82 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

0596805829 (ISBN13: 9780596805821)

languge

English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

O'Reilly Media

review 1: I read this book in fits and starts, in part because I found it to dry to engage with for long spells. Since I have found most other explanations of RESTful development difficult to grasp, I have to commend this book for getting me further. Also, there is enough breadth of coverage of architectural issues that the book is a helpful reference point.I got an enourmous amount out of chapter 7 on ATOM. There is probably two reasons for this: I derived a similar solution in ATOM some time ago for a slightly different problem, so I could immediately see how the details improved on what I achieved; I have worked a little with a client who has a similar problem
review 2: It's a good solid book that goes over the different kinds of REST in order, and explains why it i... mores that HATEOAS and MIME types are really the most extensible form of REST that you can use.I would have appreciated more discussion of HATEOAS edge case such as batching and partial updates, and a more in-depth explanation of what a resource is and how to cut down on network round trips (this was a concern when writing an API that had to interact with a flash client, as starting a flash client and doing several HTTP round trips is not all that cheap). Still, for what it provides, it is far better than most of the other books out there, particularly the O'Reilly option. less

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