The Web is fast becoming a serious competitor to traditional enterprise architecture approaches. This tutorial will provide an introduction to RESTful Web Service techniques, both from a theoretical and practical perspectives. The tutorial is broken down as follows:

       • Introduction and Motivation
       • The Web Architecture
       • Simple Web Integration including POX and URI tunnelling
       • CRUD Services using URI templates and HTTP
       • Semantics using Microformats and RDF
       • Hypermedia and the REST architectural style
       • Scalability and how a text-based client-server polling protocol outperforms everything else!
       • ATOM and ATOMPub for event-driven and pub/sub applications Security
       • Conclusions and further thoughts

Keywords: REST, Web, Scalability, CloudComputing

Target Audience: Participants should be comfortable with distributed computing concepts, but won't need any particular integration or middleware experience.