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REST's popularity as a design pattern for providing services has steadily gained traction
over the last decade. While this is great news because more decentralized and browsable
services become available, it also creates the risk of attempting to create REST standards
. After looking back at REST's success (and WS-REST's 6-year history), this talk is
an attempt to present REST as a pattern and a practice, and not as a technology that
needs standardized technologies and tools. As REST practitioners, our goal should
be to create solutions that are a good fit for their problem space, instead of attempting
to create the single one solution that we can simply use everywhere.
REST: From Research to Practice [http://ws-rest.org/book/]published by Springer
REST: Advanced Research Topics and Practical Applications [http://ws-rest.org/book/2/]published by Springer
style elements
discovery protocolin the REST style
understandthe resource
How to follow a link?is a core REST question
Certificationis one possible way to harden clients
Test modeshould be a standard feature in all
REST frameworks
surface
patternfor JSON formats?