REST Web Services: The Book

Something to look for on Amazon soon: REST Web Services.  The outline looks good; I would love to have a book to hand to people who want to find out about REST.

Especially Chapter 8: Resource-Oriented versus Service-Oriented Architectures:

The main event. We single-handledly take on the SOA, WSDL, and the WS-* stack: an enormous, multi-billion-dollar project that has alrady had about 25 books written about it. We believe this conglomorate will ultimately end up like CORBA, the OSI protocol suite, ATM, and other overengineered big-money flops; and that simpler, more flexible solutions will swallow anything good to come out of it.

In the spirit of comity and friendship, following the smackdown will be a section describing what REST services can learn from the SOA and take from the WS-* technologies.

Tags: REST, Web Services