Tutorial 3: Build web consumable services via REST

Joe Lopatka (IBM)
Ning Yan (Technical Lead, IBM.COM Webmaster Team, USA)

Abstract:

To make your enterprise data and traditional web services consumable through web is becoming increasingly important for your organization. REST is playing the key role for making your services being used and integrated by others via web. This tutorial will teach you the basic of REST and the related web architecture; the best practices in constructing the REST services from the traditional web services, and you will learn how to consume and integrate other REST services with your existing web services. Also, you will learn how to effectively use IBM products to integrate your REST services.

About Speaker:

Ning Yan is a technical lead in IBM.COM webmaster team. He has been actively involved with latest web technologies and helped to build IBM.COM public web site and services architecture. He has several technical articles published in IBM System Journal and IBM developerWorks.