Foreword by Stefan Tilkov
When I first heard about REST in early 2002, I was a strong believer in the value of the emerging Web services specifications and standards. I was initially intrigued by the approach, particularly the “uniform interface” idea, but quickly concluded that while REST might be interesting, it was most certainly not applicable in enterprise use cases.
A year or two later, I had started to appreciate the elegance and simplicity of the REST style, and became convinced that in some cases, it was a better choice, while more advanced use cases still required SOAP and WSDL and WS-*. Another year later, I found myself recommending RESTful HTTP over SOAP-style Web services in most situations, and decided that I could call myself ...
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