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RestWebServicesNotes
(08 Dec 2012,
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Representational State Transfer is the software architecture of the world wide web. You can use this architecture to build distributed systems - it's an alternative to SOAP (see
SoapWebServicesNotes
).
http://rest.blueoxen.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?FrontPage
- the REST wiki
http://www.prescod.net/rest/mistakes/
- don't make these mistakes
http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2004/12/01/restful-web.html
- the first in a series of good columns about building RESTful web services.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/389169/best-practices-for-api-versioning
- discussion of best practices for API versioning.
RESTful bits and pieces:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AS2
- AS2: a specification about how to transport data securely and reliably over the Internet.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenSearch
- OpenSearch: a collection of technologies that allow publishing of search results in a format suitable for syndication and aggregation.
http://code.google.com/apis/gdata/index.html
- Google Data Protocol: a REST-inspired technology for reading, writing, and modifying information on the web.
http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6648
- the "x-" prefix for internet content types is now considered deprecated.
Documentation:
Swagger (open source):
http://swagger.wordnik.com/
RestDoc:
http://www.restdoc.org/
open standard machine-readable descriptions of restful web services
Apiary:
http://apiary.io/
proprietary web app, nice markdown syntax for describing web services
I/O Docs (open source):
https://github.com/mashery/iodocs
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