Presentation: "REST: A Pragmatic Introduction to the Web's Architecture"

Time: Thursday 11:00 - 12:00

Location: Westminster Suite

Abstract:

REST, short for REpresentational State Transfer, is a name for the architectural principles underlying the world's largest and most successful distributed system - the World Wide Web.

In this talk, Stefan will describe the key REST principles, the reason for their existence, and the differences between RESTful HTTP applications and SOAP/WSDL-based Web services.

Stefan will also show how to design RESTful applications and demonstrate some typical patterns and anti-patterns discovered in the wild.

Trackhost: Stefan Tilkov

Trackhost: Stefan Tilkov

Stefan Tilkov is co-founder and principal consultant at innoQ, a technology consulting company with offices in Germany and Switzerland.

He has been involved in the design of large-scale, distributed systems for more than a decade, using a variety of technologies and tools ranging from C++ and CORBA over J2EE/Java EE and Web Services to REST and Ruby on Rails.

Stefan is lead SOA editor of InfoQ, author of a numerous articles and a frequent speaker at conferences around the world.