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Roy Fielding’s Dissertation – http://www.ics.uci.edu/~fielding/pubs/dissertation/top.htm
Books
RESTful Web Services – http://www.amazon.com/RESTful-Web-Services-Leonard-Richardson/dp/0596529260
RESTful .NET – http://www.amazon.com/RESTful-NET-Build-Consume-Services/dp/0596519206
RESTful PHP Web Services – http://www.amazon.com/RESTful-PHP-Services-Samisa-Abeysinghe/dp/1847195520
Articles and Presentations
Alan Dean’s “Separating REST Facts from Fallacies” – http://www.slideshare.net/alan.dean/separating-rest-facts-from-fallacies-presentation
“How I Explained REST to My Wife” by Ryan Tomayko – http://tomayko.com/writings/rest-to-my-wife
Brian Sletton’s JavaWorld series on REST:
http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-10-2008/jw-10-rest-series-1.html
http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-12-2008/jw-12-rest-series-2.html
http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-02-2009/jw-02-rest-series-3.html
http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-04-2009/jw-04-rest-series-4.html
Software
Frameworks
Java
- Jersey – https://jersey.dev.java.net/
- NetKernel – http://www.1060.org/
- Apache Sling – http://incubator.apache.org/sling/site/index.html
- Restlet – http://www.restlet.org
- JBoss Resteasy – http://www.jboss.org/resteasy.html
- Kauri (Restlet, Spring, Maven, and jQuery) – http://www.kauriproject.org
.NET
- ASP.NET 3.5 and ASP.NET MVC – http://www.asp.net/mvc/
Python
- Django – http://www.djangoproject.com/
Ruby
- Ruby on Rails – http://rubyonrails.org/
In-Development
- Spring 3.0 MVC
Proposed
- Apache Wink – http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/WinkProposal
Clients
Google rest-client – http://code.google.com/p/rest-client/
Fiddler 2 – http://www.fiddler2.com/fiddler2/
cURL – http://curl.haxx.se/
Other
Mule (Enterprise Service Bus) – http://www.mulesource.org/display/MULE/Home
Apache CouchDB (Database) – http://couchdb.apache.org/
Standards
HTTP/1.1 – http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2616
URI – http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3986
XML – http://www.w3.org/XML/Core/
JAX-RS (JSR311) – https://jsr311.dev.java.net/
Examples
RESTful Web Services
Amazon S3 – http://aws.amazon.com/s3/
Sun Cloud API – http://kenai.com/projects/suncloudapis/pages/Home
Atom Publishing Protocol – http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5023
Services Claiming to be RESTful (but aren’t)
Flickr API – http://www.flickr.com/services/api/
del.icio.us API – http://delicious.com/help/api