Designing RESTful Web Services
summary
Explains why REST’s value is hypermedia as the engine of application state and shows concrete techniques: define a custom media type like application/vnd.acme.shop+xml, use explicit link relations and self/next links so clients follow the next link for pagination, and prefer media-type versioning rather than /v1 URLs so proxies and cached resources remain stable. Uses LoveFilm and Huddle as real examples, contrasts XML’s extensibility with JSON’s breaking changes, and points to slides and further reading for implementation details.
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