REST Articles

  • Playing Together Nicely: Getting REST and SOAP to Share Each Other's Toys
    by Jason R. Briggs
    Nov 3, 2006
    Convincing your colleagues and clients to consider a RESTful approach to SOA is difficult when the accepted standard is SOAP-style services. In this article, Jason R. Briggs introduces a SOAP interface that can be used to deliver SOAP messages from REST resources. More...
  • Using REST with Ajax
    by Nic Ferrier
    Jan 26, 2007
    The RESTful view of the Web says to use HTTP's verbs--GET, PUT, POST, and DELETE--where appropriate. Yet most browsers support only GET and POST. How can you achieve RESTfulness without writing your own client? Nic Ferrier shows how to design a RESTful web application using Ajax and Python. More...
  • Implementing the Atom Publishing Protocol
    by Joe Gregorio
    Jan 27, 2007
    Joe Gregorio's latest Restful Web column implements the Atom Publishing Protocol as a Python web service using WSGI. More...