REST: From Research to Practice

Introduction.- I. Foundations.- 1. The Essence of REST Architectural Style.- 2. REST and Web Services: in Theory and in Practice.- II. Design.- 3. Designing a RESTful Domain Application Protocol.- 4.Designing Hypermedia Engines.- 5. Beyond CRUD.- 6. Quantifying Integration Architectures.- 7. FOREST - An Interacting Object Web.- III. Development Frameworks.- 8. Hypermedia-Driven Framework for Scalable and Adaptive Application Sharing.- 9.RESTful Service Development for Resource-constrained Environments.- 10. A REST Framework for Dynamic Client Environments.- 11. From Requirements to a RESTful Web Service - Engineering Content Oriented Web Services with REST.- 12. A Framework for Rapid Development of REST Web Services for Integrating Information Systems.- IV. Application Case Studies.- 13. Managing Legacy Telco Datausing RESTful Web Services.- 14. Case Study on the Use of REST Architectural Principles for Scientific Analysis: CAMERA - Community Cyberinfrastructure forAdvanced Microbial Ecology Research and Analysis.- 15. Practical REST indata-centric business applications: the case of Cofidis Hispania.- V. REST and Pervasive Computing.- 16. RESTifying Real-World Systems: a Practical Case Studyin RFID.- 17. Leveraging the Web for a Distributed Location-aware Infrastructure for the Real World.- 18. RESTful service architectures for pervasive networking environments.- VI. REST Research.- 19. On Entities in the Web of Data.- 20. A Resource Oriented Multimedia Description Framework.- 21. Metadata Architecture in RESTful Design.- 22. RESTful Services with Lightweight Machine-readable Descriptions and Semantic Annotations.- 23. Towards Distributed Atomic Transactions Over RESTful Services.