This book serves as a starting point for people looking for a deeper principled understanding of REST, its applications, its limitations, and current research work in the area and as an architectural style. The authors focus on applying REST beyond Web applications (i.e., in enterprise environments), and in reusing established and well-understood design patterns. The book examines how RESTful systems can be designed and deployed, and what the results are in terms of benefits and challenges encountered in the process. This book is intended for information and service architects and designers who are interested in learning about REST, how it is applied, and how it is being advanced.

This volume provides an overview and an understanding of REST (Representational State Transfer). Discussing the constraints of REST the book focuses on REST as a type of web architectural style. The focus is on applying REST beyond Web applications (i.e., in enterprise environments), and in reusing established and well-understood design patterns when doing so. The reader will be able to understand how RESTful systems can be designed and deployed, and what the results are in terms of benefits and challenges encountered in the process.

Since REST is relatively new as an approach for designing Web Services, the more advanced part of the book collects a number of challenges to some of the assumptions and constraints of REST, and looks at current research work on how REST can be extended and applied to scenarios that often are considered not to be a good match for REST.

This work will help readers to reach a deeper understanding of REST on a practical as well as on an advanced level.

This book serves as a starting point for people looking for a deeper principled understanding of REST, its applications, its limitations, and current research work in the area and as an architectural style. The authors focus on applying REST beyond Web applications (i.e., in enterprise environments), and in reusing established and well-understood design patterns. The book examines how RESTful systems can be designed and deployed, and what the results are in terms of benefits and challenges encountered in the process. This book is intended for information and service architects and designers who are interested in learning about REST, how it is applied, and how it is being advanced.

This volume provides an overview and an understanding of REST (Representational State Transfer). Discussing the constraints of REST the book focuses on REST as a type of web architectural style. The focus is on applying REST beyond Web applications (i.e., in enterprise environments), and in reusing established and well-understood design patterns when doing so. The reader will be able to understand how RESTful systems can be designed and deployed, and what the results are in terms of benefits and challenges encountered in the process. Since REST is relatively new as an approach for designing Web Services, the more advanced part of the book collects a number of challenges to some of the assumptions and constraints of REST, and looks at current research work on how REST can be extended and applied to scenarios that often are considered not to be a good match for REST. This work will help readers to reach a deeper understanding of REST on a practical as well as on an advanced level.

This book provides readers with comprehensive details on how the WWW works, complete with definitions and standards. It discusses the latest versions of the transfer protocol (HTTP 1.1), the description language (HTML 4.0), the foundations of the description language (SGML and XML), style sheets (CSS1), web servers, and security (SSL and CGI). Issues of importance for the future development of the WWW are discussed, including virtual reality (VRML), portable network graphics (PNG), and MathML.

Das World Wide Web ist zweifelsohne eine der wichtigsten Entwicklungen des vergangenen Jahrzehnts. Seit den Anfangen 1990 hat es sich von einem zunachst sehr einfachen Modell von Ressource-Namen (URL), einem Ubertragungsprotokoll (HTTP) und einer Sprache fur die Beschreibung miteinander verbundener Dokumente (HTML) zu einer weit komplexeren Infrastruktur entwickelt.
Dieses Buch gibt eine umfassende technische Beschreibung aller relevanten WWW Entwicklungen von den Anfangen bis heute, einschliesslich der neuesten Versionen des Hypertext-Transfer-Protokolls (HTTP/1.1) und der Beschreibungssprache (HTML 4.0), der Grundlagen der Beschreibungssprache (SGML und die aufstrebende Variante XML), der Style Sheets (CSS1 und CSS2), der Server-Technik (SSL, CGI und Apache als Beispiel eines Web Servers) sowie einiger Entwicklungen, die in Zukunft an Bedeutung gewinnen werden (MathML, PNG, XPointer, XLink)."