RESTful Web Services

Every developer working with the needs to read this book. -- David Heinemeier Hansson, creator of the Rails framework Services finally provides a practical roadmap for constructing services that embrace the Web, instead of trying to route around -- Adam Trachtenberg, PHP author and EBay Services Evangelist You've built web sites that can be used by humans. But can you also build web sites that are usable by machines? That's where the future lies, and that's what RESTful Services shows you how to do. The World Wide is the most popular distributed application in history, and services and mashups have turned it into a powerful distributed computing platform. But today's web service technologies have lost sight of…