RESTful Web services made easy Learn the basics about RESTful web services in this quick tip. You can create a RESTful Web service using nothing more than the JDK, a simple text editor and Tomcat 7.

Is Web services development too complicated? A small but influential group of Web developers thinks so. These developers advocate a new approach – one they say is simpler than the World Wide Web ...

Enterprises have probably heard of REST before. Companies may even have experience with building RESTful services. But what many may not have considered is how REST can help create web and mobile ...

The benefit of RESTful Web Services, by Leonard Richardson and Sam Ruby (O’Reilly and Associates, 2007) and the Representational State Transfer (REST) philosophy in general, is that REST lets ...

If you are a proponent of Web services and follow discussions in the community, then certainly you must have come across the term REST. You probably have also seen headlines such as ‘REST vs. SOA’, ...

RESTful APIs are flexible, sensible and provide for a great deal of loose coupling, but if an application architect is looking for an effective way to describe the RESTful API in a manner similar to ...

The Preface of Developing RESTful Services with JAX-RS 2.0, WebSockets, and JSON is a good place to start if you are thinking of purchasing this book and want to get an overview of what it entails.

Say for instance, you’d like to create a RESTful web service that enables runners to sign up for races. In this context, imagine a company (foo) that provides the management platform that ...