I'm starting to get into WCF and Silverlight development and I've decided on a RESTful architecture. I need resources now and am looking for some good books. Can someone recommend any?
Does anyone know if this book: "Learning WCF" by Bustamante (http://www.amazon.com/Learning-WCF-Hands-Michele-Bustamante/dp/0596101627) has any REST implementations in there?
Restful.net I've not read it, but it rated well on Amazon.com
Also, Not a book, but I thought this was a great place to start.
See Colin Jack's review on Restful.net. It doens't cover ReST at all, at most it covers WCF ReST, which is not a RESTful framework to start with.
The book with the warmest reception so far from people that get ReST is Restful Web Services. A mine of information.
http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596529260/
And of course, for free you can check Roy's thesis, as it's the source of ReST.
I just finished working on a project that was REST based using WCF technology. These are the resources our team referred to for gaining an understanding of REST (Not just from WCF perspective).
1)The REST-discuss group on Yahoo, provides excellent source of information for commonly encountered issues in REST design.(Sometimes even Roy Fielding answers user questions)
2)Programming WCF by Juval Lowy is a good book to understand WCF. Its concise and to the point "http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596526993/"
3)If you want to know the internals of WCF, one of the best sources is Aaron Skonnard's service station "http://www.pluralsight.com/community/blogs/aaron/default.aspx".
4)If you would like to see REST from a platform neutral approach, then Sam Ruby and Richardson's book is best. "http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596529260/"
5)To know all the esoteric concepts associated with WCF, Nicholas Allen's blog is great. "http://blogs.msdn.com/drnick/ "
Hope this answers your question