September 2010
Intermediate to advanced
446 pages
13h 23m
English
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Preface
THE WEB HAS REVOLUTIONIZED THE WAY WE ACCESS AND SHARE INFORMATION. In just two decades, it has become the global platform for delivering and consuming services.
The pervasiveness and ubiquity of the Web stems from the way it combines architectural simplicity with a small set of widely accepted technologies. The Web provides scalability, security, and reliability for those systems that embrace its simple tenets, and it does so using commodity tools and platforms.
Our goal in this book is twofold: to demystify the Web as an application platform and to showcase how web architecture can be applied to common enterprise computing problems. Throughout the chapters, we make it a point to demonstrate how services can leverage the Web both inside and outside enterprise boundaries. Our vision is of an information platform that is open and available to other systems, which eschews integration in favor of composition, and yet implements valuable business behaviors: a distributed, hypermedia-driven application platform.
You don’t have to know REST or HTTP in detail in order to understand this book. We’ll take you from simple integration through to sophisticated business protocols, all with detailed code examples that you can adapt for your own ends.
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Like most of us, you’re probably already building something that feeds into the Web, and you’ve probably used tools and patterns for the Web that seem pretty useful. Then you’ve tackled typical enterprise problems and ...
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