RestWebServicesNotes - Tech

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 <br/>
http://www.prescod.net/rest/mistakes/ - don't make these mistakes <br/>
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. <br/>
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/389169/best-practices-for-api-versioning - discussion of best practices for API versioning. <br/>

RESTful bits and pieces:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AS2 - AS2: a specification about how to transport data securely and reliably over the Internet.<br/>
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenSearch - <nop>OpenSearch: a collection of technologies that allow publishing of search results in a format suitable for syndication and aggregation.<br/>
http://code.google.com/apis/gdata/index.html - Google Data Protocol: a REST-inspired technology for reading, writing, and modifying information on the web.<br/>
http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6648 - the "x-" prefix for internet content types is now considered deprecated.<br/>

Documentation:
   * Swagger (open source): http://swagger.wordnik.com/
   * <nop>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