Brett Suwyn - Building RESTful Web Services in ColdFusion
Brett Suwyn is senior programmer of Pro Bono Net. He specializes in building large-scale content management systems.
Meeting Overview
Jun 10th, 2008
REST has quickly risen to fame as the most popular API architecture implemented on the Internet, but the roots of Representational State Transfer goes back to the origins of the HTTP protocol. REST in fact presents us with best practices for designing web applications and understanding these principles will have a long term impact on how you design web sites.
In this meeting we will discuss the aspects of what makes a web application RESTful, and demonstrate techniques for composing RESTful services using ColdFusion. We'll learn about HTTP methods, content type negotiations, authentication techniques, resource based URI schemes and other best practices.
