Comments on: RESTful Web Services Cookbook Released

By: Subbu Allamaraju

Subbu Allamaraju — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 03:38:26 +0000

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

By: Emmanuel Bastien

Emmanuel Bastien — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 09:10:22 +0000

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

By: Bill Burke

Bill Burke — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 22:32:04 +0000

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

By: Helen Neely

Helen Neely — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 16:52:29 +0000

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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By: ebenhewitt (Eben Hewitt)

ebenhewitt (Eben Hewitt) — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 22:08:31 +0000

congrats to @sallamar & @mamund for #RESTful Web Services Cookbook now shipping. terrific book. http://bit.ly/9Cvxg2

By: Per Spilling

Per Spilling — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 20:25:00 +0000

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

By: Julien Viet

Julien Viet — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 20:20:18 +0000

Congrats Subbu!

By: anjan bacchu

anjan bacchu — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 03:24:18 +0000

Hi Subbu,

I’d like to review the book .

thank you,

BR,
~A

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