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REST Easy: A Guide to Representational State Transfer

Overview Check out this slide presentation to learn how REST (Representational State Transfer) compares to SOAP and the WSF (Web services framework). This presentation by Peter Lacey, Senior Analyst for Burton Group, explores these key topics and more:

Understanding REST
Using HTTP to build REST applications
REST concepts and practices
REST, WS-*, and SOA
Recommendations for distributed applications

Further White Paper Details
Publisher	Burton Group	File Format	PowerPoint
Date Published	June 2007
Format	Presentations
Topics	IP Technologies, Web Protocols, XML, Web Services

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