Re:How I explained REST to my wife
by kragen on Saturday August 15, 2009 @12:13AM
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Have you read Roy's dissertation?
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I read it and was surprised at how readable I found it (never mind being a dissertation).
http://www.ics.uci.edu/~fielding/pubs/dissertation/top.htm
What is also really good is Richardson and Ruby's "RESTful Web Services" book. They coined the term "Resource Oriented Architecture" to describe a specific REST design implementation and to side-step a religious war on what is and is not REST.