A presentation by Mohanaraj Gopala Krishnan at barcamp Malaysia 2008. Attribution: Content and inspiration from http://bitworking.org/news/125/REST-and-WS http://bitworking.org/projects/oscon2007/html/

1. AtomPub, beyond blogs
Using the AtomPub protocol as the base of your Web API

2. Questions for you
• Are you familiar with HTTP (Methods,
Status codes etc) ?
• Are you familiar with Web Services/APIs?
• Are you familiar with AtomPub?
• Have you developed a web service before ?
• Have you used/written WS-* ?
• Have used/written AtomPub ?

3. Your mission - Build a
web service that:

4. • Speaks HTTP,
across the
Internet
• Is scalable and
robust

5. • Caters to heterogeneous
clients (browsers, terminals,
other web services )
•Language neutral
(Java,PHP,Perl,Python, Ruby
and god forbid C , C++ ;))

6. Options ?
(Architecture - wise)