REST in Practice: A Tutorial on Web-based Distributed Systems

The Web is fast becoming a serious competitor to traditional enterprise architecture approaches. This tutorial will provide an introduction to RESTful Web Service techniques, both from a theoretical and practical perspectives. The tutorial is broken down as follows:

• Introduction and Motivation
• The Web Architecture
• Simple Web Integration including POX and URI tunnelling
• CRUD Services using URI templates and HTTP
• Semantics using Microformats and RDF
• Hypermedia and the REST architectural style
• Scalability and how a text-based client-server polling protocol outperforms everything else!
• ATOM and ATOMPub for event-driven and pub/sub applications Security
• Conclusions and further thoughts

Keywords: REST, Web, Scalability, CloudComputing

Target Audience: Participants should be comfortable with distributed computing concepts, but won't need any particular integration or middleware experience.