RESTful Web Services

RESTful Web services are very popular currently. REST (Representational State Transfer) is an alternative to SOAP, XML-RPC etc., that provides simple, platform-neutral data exchange using the HTTP transport.

RESTful Web Services

RESTful Web Services

       

RESTful Web services are very popular currently. REST (Representational State Transfer) is an alternative to SOAP, XML-RPC etc., that provides simple, platform-neutral data exchange using the HTTP transport. It can be integrated with HTTP more efficiently than SOAP based services.

RESTFul style can be good when web services are fully stateless, caching can be good for performance, service consumer and producer have an understanding of the context, and bandwidth is important and limited. Main advantages of REST web services are lightweight, human readable results and easy to build.

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Tutorials

  1. Automate data entry with Web services and Ajax
  2. Implementing WS-Security
  3. Cross-platform programming with Java technology and the IBM Web Services Toolkit for Mobile Devices
  4. Understanding quality of service for Web services Improving the performance of your Web services
  5. June 2008 Issue of Java Jazz up magazine
  6. RESTful Web Services
  7. SOA and Web Services
  8. Quick introduction to web services
  9. Amazon Web Services (AWS)
  10. Google web Service (GWS)
  11. developing simple web service
  12. open source web services tool java