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I'm an experienced client application developer (C++/C#), but need to come up to speed quickly on writing server side code to perform RESTful interactions. Specifically, I need to learn how to exchange data with OpenSocial containers via the RESTful API.

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The RESTWiki is a very good resource and then there is the classic "How I explained REST to my Wife".

However, don't forget to go read about it directly from the source, it is not as difficult a read as it may first seem.

And I am assuming you will be doing REST over HTTP so this will come in very handy.

Lastly, considering OpenSocial supports the Atom Publishing Protocol, this will be useful.

Enjoy.

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Darrel Miller
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RESTful Web Services

Hank Gay
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  • Thanks, I didn't know there was a book out on this. Will definitely buy. – user16502 Sep 18 '08 at 15:19
  • The original dissertation (http://www.ics.uci.edu/~fielding/pubs/dissertation/top.htm) that Darrell Miller mentioned is also really good. It will help you understand the reasoning behind a lot the things described in the book. That way you have a better feel for edgecases that aren't covered in-book – Hank Gay Sep 18 '08 at 15:27
  • @Hank yes, that's the authoritative source on REST. – aehlke Aug 24 '09 at 14:25
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I found this this to be a good introduction to RESTful web apps, although it doesn't refer to OpenSocial containers.

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  • Good overview doc. Here's another reference with some motivation behing RESTful (http://ajaxpatterns.org/RESTful_Service). – user16502 Sep 17 '08 at 18:26