This post is dedicated to REST, an architectural style of shaping webservices and the most misunderstood concept in the history of IT. This post is addressed to you who is designing webservice apis not being fully aware what REST actually means.
The meaning of REST
Why RPC is a pain in the A**
But SOAP is still bad
Sessions are Evil
Dont reinvent Hypermedia
Further Resources
In this post, i have only scratched the surface of the advantages of REST.
Here are some good resources to get you a deeper understanding.
- Fowlers Article on the Richardson Maturity Model
- A great slide on Hypermedia
- A talk by David Zuelke on RESTful Webservices
- Intro to REST (short video of GoogleDevelopers)
- A talk of Lez Hazlewood (Stormpath)
- A Cookbook for RESTful WebServices
- Great German Book about REST
Posted by Gregor Riegler
