内容简介

Why don't typical enterprise projects go as smoothly as projects you develop for the Web? Does the REST architectural style really present a viable alternative for building distributed systems and enterprise-class applications?In this insightful book, three SOA experts provide a down-to-earth explanation of REST and demonstrate how you can develop simple and elegant distributed hypermedia systems by applying the Web's guiding principles to common enterprise computing problems. You'll learn techniques for implementing specific Web technologies and patterns to solve the needs of a typical company as it grows from modest beginnings to become a global enterprise.Learn basic Web techniques for application integration Use HTTP and the Web’s infrastructure to build scalable, fault-tolerant enterprise applications Discover the Create, Read, Update, Delete (CRUD) pattern for manipulating resources Build RESTful services that use hypermedia to model state transitions and describe business protocols Learn how to make Web-based solutions secure and interoperable Extend integration patterns for event-driven computing with the Atom Syndication Format and implement multi-party interactions in AtomPub Understand how the Semantic Web will impact systems design

作者简介

JimcWebber, ThoughtWorks公司的一位技术主管, 工作于可信赖的分布式系统.

SavascParastatidis, 微软公司的一位架构师, 工作于大规模的数据密集型和计算密集型应用.

IancRobinson, ThoughtWorks公司的首席咨询顾问, 帮助客户从奠基阶段到运营阶段创建可持续的面向服务开发能力.

精彩摘录

每一个表述都是针对相同的底层资源的一个视图，通过Web的内容协商（contentnegotiation）机制在运行时进行转换格式的协商。

——引自第16页

如果你正在寻找一本书来学习如何设计网站或者编写JavaScript应用，这本书不会给你很多帮助，尽管已经有大量有能力的Ajax开发者利用了我们的方法来建造后端的服务。如果你在寻找建造混搭应用（mashups）或者为人们所直接使用的系统，这本书可能不是为你而写的。我们将本书的内容聚焦于机器对机器的交互。实际上，这本书的内容完全是关于一台机器如何通过web与另一台机器交互。我们相当喜欢这种方式。

——引自第4页