RESTful Web Services Cookbook Released

by Subbu Allamaraju on March 11, 2010 · 15 comments

I am happy to announce that the RESTful Web Services Cookbook is now available in stores.

Many thanks to Mark Nottingham, Eben Hewitt, Colin Jack, Stefan Tilkov, Norbert Lindenberg, Chris Westin, Dan Theurer, Shaunak Kashyap, Larry Cable, Alan Dean, Surya Suravarapu, Jim D’Ambrosia, Randolph Kahle, Dhananjay Nene and Brian Sletten for their valuable and critical feedback on this book.

If you are interested reviewing the book, please email me directly. The Yahoo! Developer Network may be interested in publishing a review.

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Kris Zyp March 11, 2010 at 12:42 pm

Congratulations on getting that finished.

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dret March 11, 2010 at 1:06 pm

congrats! feels good, doesn’t it?

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anjan bacchu March 11, 2010 at 7:24 pm

Hi Subbu,

I’d like to review the book .

thank you,

BR,
~A

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Julien Viet March 12, 2010 at 12:20 pm

Congrats Subbu!

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Per Spilling March 12, 2010 at 12:25 pm

This looks like interesting material for the JavaZone conference in Oslo in September. Read more about how to submit an abstract here: http://jz10.java.no/program.html

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Helen Neely March 17, 2010 at 9:52 am

I’m not sure if this is too late, but I too would like a review copy if that’s possible.
Waiting to hear from you.

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Bill Burke March 26, 2010 at 3:32 pm

Can’t wait to get my pre-ordered copy!

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Emmanuel Bastien June 24, 2010 at 2:10 am

Hi Subbu,
Congratulations and thanks a lot for this great book.
One remark though: I’ve just read the chapter 14.1 on “How to Document RESTful Web Services” and I find it a bit contradictory to what you wrote some time ago on InfoQ (http://www.infoq.com/articles/subbu-allamaraju-rest). In this article, and I agree with you, you explain clearly that what is important is to document links, relations and media types instead of URIs. URIs are meant to be opaque and therefore not documented as is. But in this chapter 14.1, your advice is to document “All resources and methods supported for each resource”. To me, it looks similar to a context-free documentation of URIs. My understanding of a RESTful client is that it does not know what and where is the “Photo” resource, it should only know what HTTP methods apply to a link of a given relation in a given context and how to process a photo media type. I would be very interested to have your opinion on this subject.
Best regards,
-emmanuel

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Subbu Allamaraju June 29, 2010 at 8:38 pm

Good observation. Documenting resources and methods supported is still a good exercise since it can be handy when writing client code.

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Oddleif September 19, 2010 at 8:05 am

Greate book. You covered a lot of interesting aspects of REST there.

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Daniel April 22, 2013 at 3:42 pm

There is any place from where I can purchase the source code used in the book…?

In regards to the website….Is that a joke? http://www.­restful-­webservices-­cookbook.­org
Behind the actual url is a website for skin moisture and stuff defo not related to the restful services…..

Thanks,
D.

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Subbu Allamaraju April 22, 2013 at 3:44 pm

Daniel – there is no source code since all the examples are HTTP requests and responses.

Regarding the web site, it only hosted a TOC for during the book writing phase. As I slacked on domain renewal, someone squatted.

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