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Rest has many different meanings. View:

rest (music), the pause inside a piece of music. rest (object), the trend lines for even even a musket or billiards or snooker cue. rest (physics), the relation between deuce observers. rest when action, to relax, view recreation. A reserves of the Bank of England. Around software engineering, REST is an acronym for Representational State Transfer. ReST too refers to the markup language, ReStructuredText. Inside chemistry a rest (abbreviated R) is the variable a portion of a molecule attached to a given core structure. Understand: Functional group and side chain.

REST for AOLserver, PyWX, and Quixote
Document by Dave Kuhlman provides an introduction to REST plus suggestions and instructions on how to deliver RESTful applications on top of AOLserver, PyWX, and Quixote, possibly with help of a relational database such as PostgreSQL.

Paul's REST Resources
Articles and links on REST and related technologies.

MT::REST
Project implementing REST-style access into Movable Type.

RESTLog
A weblog application that tries to follow the REST architectural style.

Waterken Web Services
A model for building an application network interface that follows the constraints of both REST and capability-based security. Specifications, tutorials, white papers and programmer documentation for Waterken Web calculus and abstract messaging protocol.

sqlREST
Tool for exposing relational databases as REST style Web Service

REST - Representational State Transfer
Roy Thomas Fielding's PhD dissertation "Architectural Styles and the Design of Network-based Software Architectures".

Online REST Web Service Demo
Shows how resources on an sqlREST-server can be queried, removed and altered using HTTP and XML.

RESTwiki
Site dedicated to all things related to the REST architectural style; includes a list of REST resources.