Restful Web Services

Youve built web sites that can be used other people. But can you build web sites that are usable machines? The World Wide Web isnt just a big distributed applicationits a platform for distributed computing. Web services, mashups, and Ajax applications all use the Web as a platform. But todays web service technologies have lost sight of the simplicity that made the Web successful; they dont work like the Web, and theyre missing out on its advantages.This book puts the "Web" back into web services. It explains how you can connect to the programmable web with the technologies you already use every day. The key is REST, the architectural style that drives the Web.