《RESTful.NET》是第一本为欲使用最新的微软工具建立RESTful Web服务的Windows开发人员而准备的书。本书作者Jon Flanders是WCF（Windows Communication Foundation）专家。这本简单实用的教程示范了如何使用WCF和.NET 3.5 Framework的其他组成部分，来建立、部署并使用多种应用场景中基于REST的Web服务。
RESTful体系结构提供了比SOAP、SOA或繁琐的WS-*堆栈更为简单的方式以建立Web服务。WCF已经被证实为无须依托WS-*标准即可建立分布式处理系统的灵活技术。《RESTful .NET》为消耗机器和人力建立Web服务提供了一个WCF REST编程模型的完全指导。你将学习到如何：
编写Read－Only（GET）服务
编写READ/WRITE服务
主机REST服务
编写REST feeds
编写AJAX REST客户端
安全REST终端
使用工作流传递REST服务
利用WCF消耗RESTful XML服务
结合HTTP运作
结合ADO.NET数据服务（之前称为Astoria）运作
《RESTful.NET》是一本非常棒的介绍REST和RESTful结构的书籍。如果你使用.NET开发，那么是时候转向RESTful了——这本书将会讲解方法。

“REST是简易的，WCF却不是这样。要切实理解并利用这部分的WCF，需要一个有丰富知识和实战经验的指导者。我想不出比Jon Flanders更适合担任这个角色的人??Jon在解释复杂的概念方面功夫一流。在创建和使用WCF的这些服务上，这本书是我见过的最好的介绍。”
——David Chappell,Chappell & Associates公司
Jon Flanders是Pluralsight公司的技术人员。这是一家专门为使用微软技术的开发者提供培训的公司。Jon专门从事WCF、WF和BizTalk的研究，是Addison-Wesley出版的《ASP Internals》一书的作者，也是《Mastering Visual Studio.NET》（O'Reilly）一书的合著者。

书名：RESTful.NET（影印版）

作者：Jon Flanders 著

国内出版社：东南大学出版社

出版时间：2009年05月

页数：287

书号：978-7-5641-1650-7

原版书出版商：O'Reilly Media

 

Although Jon Flanders spent the first few years of his professional life as an attorney,
he quickly found chasing bits more interesting than chasing ambulances. After working
with ASP and COM, he made the move to .NET. Jon is most at home spelunking and
trying to figure out exactly how .NET (specifically, ASP.NET and Visual Studio .NET)
works. Deducing the details and disseminating that information to other developers is
his passion.

 

 

The animal on the cover of RESTful .NET is an electric catfish (Siluriformes malapteruridae).
Located mainly in tropical Africa and the Nile River, the generally nocturnal
catfish can produce an electric shock of up to 350 volts, which it uses to stun or kill its
enemies (the shock is not fatal to humans).
Often seen in large display tanks at aquariums, the electric catfish has thick lips and a
cylinder-shaped, pinkish-brown body with several dark spots. The fish’s electric
organ—used to generate shocks—extends the length of its body, and, when lit, helps
the fish see through its murky surroundings.
In the normal course of its waking hours, the fish acts aggressively against other fish
and even against others of its own kind. Each successive shock its electric organ produces,
however, weakens the fish, which then must rest in order to “recharge” its electricity,
thus rendering it temporarily vulnerable to predators. The fish is also vulnerable
for another reason: its body has no scales or bony plates, making the fish relatively
defenseless against hot aquarium tanks or sharp rocks.