SOA with REST: Principles, Patterns & Constraints for Building Enterprise Solutions with REST
by Thomas Erl, Raj Balasubramanian, Cesare Pautasso, Benjamin Carlyle, Herbjorn Wilhelmsen, David Booth

The Definitive Guide to Building Web-Centric SOA with REST

The World Wide Web is based on the most successful technology architecture in history. It has changed how we view, access, and exchange information and, with the advent of REST, it has also provided us with compelling ways to build and improve automation solutions. REST provides a great deal of guidance to ensure that an architecture and its automation logic are technically sound, though it is still your responsibility to build services that actually add value to your business.

SOA with REST is the first comprehensive tutorial and reference for designing and building RESTful services as part of service-oriented solutions and in conjunction with service-oriented architecture (SOA). This book demonstrates that REST is not only a suitable medium for building truly service-oriented solutions, but also that the service-oriented architectural model is a necessary foundation for REST technology architectures to realize their full business potential.

The authors provide thorough mapping of REST constraints and architectural goals with service-orientation principles and SOA characteristics. Using real-world examples, they show how to leverage REST’s simplicity, flexibility, and low overhead without compromising the power or manageability of service-oriented solutions and architectures.

This book will be valuable to IT architects, developers, and any practitioner seeking to use SOA and REST together.

Topic Areas

Distributed solution design with HTTP and REST

REST-based service composition architectures

REST service modeling and a service-oriented analysis process for REST service candidates

Technical service contract notation for REST services based on a uniform contract

Designing REST service contracts with service-orientation

Understanding REST constraints in relation to service-orientation principles

Using hypermedia and dynamic binding within SOA and service compositions

Creating complex HTTP-based methods for enterprise solutions

Advanced design techniques, including composition deepening, runtime logic deferral, and dynamic binding with common properties

Cross-service transactions and event-driven messaging with REST

Addressing enterprise solution concerns in relation to REST-based state management

Applying SOA design patterns to REST-based solutions

Distinguishing REST and SOA service concepts and terminology

Designing REST architectures with SOA

Versioning REST services and uniform contracts

Fundamental REST, SOA, and service-orientation concepts and terminology

REST constraints, REST architectural goals, and properties

Seven new REST-inspired design patterns

Defining common goals of REST and SOA

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Publisher: Prentice Hall
Page Count (est.): 577
ISBN10: 0137012519
ISBN13: 9780137012510
Cover: Hardcover
Pub Date: 8/10/2012