RESTful Web Services: building them without tears, SOAP, or WSDL

RESTful Web Services: An introduction to building Web Services without
tears (i.e., without SOAP or WSDL)

Instructor(s): John Cowan, Senior Software Developer, The Associated Press

Pre-Requisites: A basic understanding of HTML, XML, and HTTP.

Technology Requirements: None

Would you like something cleaner than SOAP? Something less impenetrable
than WSDL? Something less confusingly intertwingled than the various WS-*
bafflegab standards? ... Say, just what is this Web Services jazz anyhow?

It's all No Problem.  It's all Easy as Pi.  REST isn't some obscure thing
that nobody supports; it's the Web already works, just formalized a bit
and with some do's and don'ts. By deconstructing what you already know
about the Web, you can rebuild it into a set of principles for sound
design, without worrying about it. No, it won't be "you push the button,
we do the REST". But it'll be clean, secure, straightforward, extensible,
discoverable, maintainable.

Talk is cheap. Come and hear all about it and see it for yourself!