This book serves as a starting point for people looking for a deeper principled understanding of REST, its applications, its limitations, and current research work in the area and as an architectural style. The authors focus on applying REST beyond Web applications (i.e., in enterprise environments), and in reusing established and well-understood design patterns. The book examines how RESTful systems can be designed and deployed, and what the results are in terms of benefits and challenges encountered in the process. This book is intended for information and service architects and designers who are interestedin learning about REST, how it is applied, and how it is being advanced."

Introduction.- Communication and Capability URLs in COAST-based Decentralized Services.- Interoperability of two RESTful protocols: HTTP and CoAP.- Enabling Real-Time Resource Oriented Architectures with REST Observers.- Survey of Semantic Description of REST APIs.- APIs to A ordances: A New Paradigm for Services on the Web.- Leveraging Linked Data to Build Hypermedia-Driven Web APIs.- RestML: Modeling RESTful Web Services.- A Lightweight Coordination Approach For Resource-Centric Collaborations.- Connecting the Dots: Using REST and Hypermedia to publish Digital Content.- In-Process REST at the BBC.