I bought this e-book for garnering some useful information on “how to use Restlet framework for embedded devices and services”.  I am fully satisfied with the writing style and also with a series of full-fledged examples in order to convey what is intended to keen readers. The creators of this hugely popular and potential framework for the most powerful web world have consciously penned down their knowledge, expertise and experience in a simple and sequential manner. This is really a helpful guide for RESTful services developers across the globe.   

      This book starts with an easy-to-understand introduction for the persuasive REST style. With the powerful emergence of Cloud computing, RESTful services are becoming so popular. Also with the pervasiveness of embedded devices, seamless interaction among varied embedded devices is being achieved through the versatile REST architectural style.  In short, REST, being an enabling instrument in easily developing and deploying REST-based web services, components, and applications, gains immense momentum among developers and users in the web community.   

About Restlet framework - As a framework, it provides an extensive set of classes and routines that we can call or extend, saving us from writing a great deal of code we would otherwise need to write, allowing us to focus instead on our core competencies. It can open up the doors for all kinds of Web (Simple, Social, Semantic, and Smart), web services and cloud computing in a simple and unified way. We can use it to both expose and consume web resources, including web pages and web services. One benefit is that Restlet supports all the features of HTTP like conditional methods, content negotiation, content ranges, content compression or content verification. This makes a radical difference as we would stop adapting your applications to the Web and instead naturally leverage its full power.

 Table of Contents

 Part 1: Getting started 

1. Rethinking Web development

2. Designing a RESTful web API

3. Beginning a Restlet application

4. Deploying a Restlet application on premises 

Part 2: Getting ready to roll out

 5. Producing and consuming Restlet representations

6. Securing a Restlet application

7. Documenting a RESTful web API

8. Enhancing a Restlet application 

Part 3: Further usage possibilities 

9. Deploying a Restlet application in the cloud

10. Using Restlet in browsers and mobile devices

11. Embracing the semantic Web

12. Looking beyond this book 

Appendices: 

A. Installing Restlet

B. Core Web standards

C. Additional help