November 2008
Intermediate to advanced
308 pages
8h 30m
English
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Chapter 1. REST Basics
Representational State Transfer (REST) is an architectural style first laid out in the dissertation of a man named Roy Fielding at the University of California Irvine, just a few miles from Monterey Park, CA, where I live (not that it matters—it’s just a fun fact for me).
REST is a set of constraints based on the architectural style of the World Wide Web. Writing this book in 2008, I don’t need to go into much detail about the success of the Web; it is a ubiquitous system for hypermedia and applications built on hypermedia. In this chapter, we’ll examine the basics of the REST architecture and its constraints, which are based on resource design and uniform interface interaction. This chapter is an introduction to the concepts of REST, and the remainder of the book will concentrate on applying those concepts to building RESTful services using Windows Communication Foundation (WCF).
Architecture of the World Wide Web
The success of the Web can be attributed in part to luck and timing, but some of the credit for its success can be attributed to its architecture. The architecture of the Web is based on a few fundamental principles that have taken it from its small beginnings to the large mass of information and functionality that exists today. These principles include:
Addressable resources
Standard resource formats
A uniform interface for interacting with those resources
Statelessness in the interaction between clients and services
Hyperlinking to enable navigation between ...
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