That one sounded very good at first, mixing two buzzwords that I wanted to learn about. Well, that was a half disappointment. I got a good introduction about RESTful services, but most of the presentations actually focused on mapping a contacts (information about people) service into a REST interface. It was useful to me because of my poor prior knowledge of RESTful services, but obviously, many people attending the session felt that this was not worth getting up early.
A few recommendations from the guy that sound good to a beginner like me, and that I will look at. Here they are for other beginners:
- Read RESTful Web Services book from O’Reilly.
- Use CURL for testing.
The project mentioned in the talk is available on openptk.dev.java.net. I guess that I will look at it, because I remain curious about the effort required to actually build this kind of service.
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