| RESTful .NET is the first book that teaches Windows
developers to build RESTful web services using the latest
Microsoft tools. Written by Windows Communication Foundation
(WFC) expert Jon Flanders, this hands-on tutorial
demonstrates how you can use WCF and other components of the
.NET 3.5 Framework to build, deploy and use REST-based web
services in a variety of application scenarios.
RESTful architecture offers a simpler approach to building
web services than SOAP, SOA, and the cumbersome WS-* stack.
And WCF has proven to be a flexible technology for building
distributed systems not necessarily tied to WS-* standards.
This book gives you a complete guide to the WCF REST
programming model for building web services consumed either
by machines or by humans.
No prior knowledge of REST or WCF is required to get
started. RESTful .NET introduces you to the ideas of REST
and RESTful architecture, and includes an overview of how
the Web/REST model plugs into the WCF architecture.
This book teaches you how to:
Program Read-Only (GET) services
Program READ/WRITE services
Host REST services
Program REST feeds
Program AJAX REST clients
Secure REST endpoints
Use workflow to deliver REST services
Consume RESTful XML services using WCF
Work with HTTP
Work with ADO.NET Data Services (Astoria)
For many reasons, more and more Microsoft developers are
turning to WCF and REST rather than SOA or WS-* standards to
build and consume web services. The .NET 3.5 Framework is
ideally suited for building RESTful web services, and this
is the one book to explain how. If you develop with .NET,
it's time to jump on the RESTful bandwagon.
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