REST Development & Service Online Resources

Here are some of our favorite links to learn about REST as an architecture. There are many more, so feel free to add your favorites!

Introduction to REST/SOA

• InfoQ: Introduction to REST
• Learn REST: A Tutorial
• REST on Wikipedia
• SOA Principles by Thomas Erl
• Roy Fielding's PhD Dissertation on REST

APIs & Design Patterns

• Building Web Services the REST Way
• Going from SOAP to REST Web Services
• REST & WOA Wiki
• WOA Principles by Don Hinchcliffe
• InfoQ: REST Anti-Patterns

Security / Authentication / Authorization

• Presentation: Enterprise Security Patterns for RESTful Web Services
• Enterprise SaaS Integration Using REST and OAuth

Mach-II

• Mach-II REST Endpoint Documentation

Books

• RESTful Web Services (O'Reilly)
• RESTful Web Services Cookbook (O'Reilly)

Specific Topics

• Amazon S3 REST Security
• Things Caches Do

JSON Utilities

• JSON to HTML (like CFDump for JSON)
• json.org

Browser Utilities

• JSONView Plugin for FireFox (view pretty JSON)
• REST console plugin for Chrome

Building a RESTful Service Presentation Resources

• CFMeetup Online User Group Presentation Recording (stream)
• Presentation Slides