RESTful services without the sweat

Representational state transfer (also known as REST, baby) is an approach to designing loosely coupled applications that rely on named resources rather than messages. As it turns out, the most involved part of building a RESTful application is deciding on the resources you want to expose. Once you’ve done that, building RESTful Web services a snap, especially if you use the Restlet framework, which greatly simplifies the task of defining and implementing RESTful services.

Check out IBM developerWorks‘ tutorial dubbed “Build a RESTful Web service“– in it, you’ll get to know what REST is and how to build RESTful applications with Restlets, plus, you’ll see how to deploy and test them while you are at it!

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  6. on 11 Nov 2009 at 9:15 am   Johannes Dressie

    Hi andy, i found youre tutorial on restful web services interesting. But it seems like the RaceDAO class in the limrick-0.1.jar is not up to date with the tutorial document. The findall method is missing or am i missing something, i know the tutorial is from last year but i thought id ask.

    thanks,

    Johannes

  7. on 13 Nov 2009 at 2:42 am   Andy

    Hi Johannes — what’s the exact issue? Or which code example are you working on?