Tuesday, October 28, 2008

An Introduction to REST

Posted by Joe Gregorio, Google Data APIs Team

Google Data APIs are based on the Atom Publishing Protocol and both Google Data APIs and AtomPub get many advantages from being RESTful protocols. Often the meaning of REST and the advantages of RESTfulness go unexplained so I put together this short 15 minute video that explains REST and some of the advantages you get with a protocol built in that style.



click through to YouTube.com and select the "watch in high quality" option

Link - from Official Google Data APIs Blog
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