O’Reilly: Inside RIA

In this tutorial we start to work with REST and Flex, are you asking what is and why use REST? REST is acronym for REpresentational State Transfer and it helps you to provide services to communicate with your database via XML but not only. With REST you can work in large web application until to small RIA, in fact is a scalable system that make all communication easier. Before starting with this tutorial you must download and configure your computer to work with Rails and Flex 4, instructions included. Follow along step by step to create an address book with REST and Flex.

Advance Flash Tactics or AFTs are techniques that come from deep within the Flash Art Of War, the oldest Flash military treatise in the world. Each AFT is designed to be quickly digested, usually only taking a few minutes to get up and running, and contains valuable information you can directly apply to your next Flash campaign. In this AFT I will go over - AS 3's rest parameter.

Silverlight can talk to a number of types of web services using REST or SOAP, returning JSON or XML, or even communicating with RSS feeds. Its important to evaluate the type of service you need before developing it.

After months of writing just about every night, Data Driven Services with Silverlight 2 is now available. I targeted this book to be different than other Silverlight books on the market, focusing more on data, networking, and other features needed to make a RIA application work for data driven situations.

The ADO.NET Data Services client library for Silverlight makes calling RESTful services exposed by ADO.NET Data Services easy. It allows request sot be made as either URis over HTTP requests or LINQ queries from Silverlight.

Cloud Gazing from Silverlight 2 ... SOAP, REST, POX and more all from Silverlight 2.

Which RPC protocol is the best: XML over HTTP, JSON, or AMF. It depends on the context and the platform