This is the REST weekly for Feb 15 2010 - Feb 21 2010. For more information on REST weeklies, see RESTWeekly. Add your links with short descriptions below. (6JR)
Around the Web (6JS)
is this REST? - An article examining two service examples to determine if they are RESTful or not. (by Mike Amundsen) (6JT)
Working with RESTful Services in CodeIgniter - Tutorial on creating RESTful (more like resource-oriented) in the PHP framework Codeigniter (by Philip Sturgeon) (6JU)
REST Client Library for Silverlight - Port of the client libraries of the WCF REST Starter Kit to Silverlight (by Philipp Sumi) (6JV)
#Rest on Freenode - Logs from the REST IRC channel on the Freenode network. Lots of interesting discussions going on there. (6JW)
Research papers (6KC)
RESTler: Crawling RESTful Services - WWW2010 poster describing Resource Linking Language (ReLL?) for service descriptions based on concepts of media types, resource types and link types. A proof of concept crawler (RESTler) is also presented. (6KD)
HTTP Database Connector (HDBC): RESTful Access to Relational Databases - WWW2010 poster on patterns that bridge the relational database model with the architecture of the Web along with an implementation of some. (6KE)
REST discussion group (6K1)
HATEOAS and Cache - More discussion on client-side libraries and respecting the HATEOAS constraint (6K5)
PATCHing an Order with an OrderChange document? - Thoughts on using PATCH instead of POST for changing orders (using different media types) (6K6)
HTTP & validation - How to communicate validation exceptions from the server to the client (6K2)
A Name for "3 out of 4 REST constraints" APIs? - On naming a large family of "REST" APIs that ignore the hypermedia constraint. (6K3)
Content Negotiation - On different ways for achieving content negotiation in HTTP (6K4)
HATEOAS-via-HTTP: Which HTTP Method to use to follow link? - On which HTTP Method to use to follow links (6K7)
RESTful Ordering (was: JAX-RS == REST? Or not?) - Examples of RESTful application workflows (6K8)
HTTP Digest Auth Dialog - On authentication with REST services (6K9)
Interesting tweets (6JX)
pkeane - "@benosteen analogous to dangers of global "state" in code? I say HATEOAS is dependency injection for the web. (REST shuns global state)." (6JY)
AndrewWahbe - "@mamund bad sign if mime type is service/resource centric. client doesn't ask for type of service in accept header. it describes itself" (6K0)
AndrewWahbe - "@mamund mime type indicates "kind of client" a service is trying to reach. txt/html for desktop browser, app/voice+xml for voice browser etc" (6JZ)