Learn how to design & develop distributed web services in Java using RESTful architectural principles & the JAX-RS 20



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The popularity of REST in recent years has led to tremendous growth in almost-RESTful APIs that don't include many of the architecture's benefits With this practical guide you'll learn what it takes to design usable REST APIs that evolve over time By focusing on solutions that cross a variety of domains this book shows you how to create powerful & secure applications using the tools designed for the world's most successful distributed computing system the World Wide Web You'll explore the concepts behind REST learn different strategies for creating hypermedia-based APIs & then put everything together with a step-by-step guide to designing a RESTful Web APIExamine API design strategies including the collection pattern & pure hypermedia Understand how hypermedia ties representations together into a coherent API Discover how XMDP & ALPS profile formats can help you meet the Web API semantic challenge Learn close to two-dozen standardized hypermedia data formats Apply best practices for using HTTP in API implementations Create Web APIs with the JSON-LD standard & other the Linked Data approaches Understand the Co AP protocol for using REST in embedded systems ...

Science has now demonstrated without a doubt that we live in an unfinished universe Discoveries in geology biology cosmology & other fields of scientific inquiry have shown that the cosmos has a narrative character & that the story is far from over The sense of a universe that is still coming into being provides a fertile new framework for thinking about the relationship of faith to science John F Haught argues that if we take seriously the fact that the universe is a drama still unfolding we can think new thoughts about God & indeed about all the perennial themes of theology Science's recent realization that the universe is dramatic however has yet to penetrate deeply into either spiritual or intellectual life Most Christian thought & spirituality still presuppose an essentially static universe while influential academic & intellectual culture remains stuck in a stagnant materialist naturalism & cosmic pessimism Resting on the Future asks about the meaning of an unfinished universe from the point of view of both Christian theology & contemporary intellectual life Each chapter covers a distinct aspect of what Haught takes to be an essential transition to a new age in Catholic life & thought Biology cosmology & other fields of science now provide the setting for a wholesome transformation of Catholic thought from a still predominantly pre-scientific to a more hopeful & scientifically informed vision of God humanity & the natural world ...

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It is 1939 Eva Delectorskaya is a beautiful 28-year-old Russian emigree living in Paris As war breaks out she is recruited for the British Secret Service by Lucas Romer a mysterious Englishman & under his tutelage she learns to become the perfect spy to mask her emotions & trust no one including those she loves most Since the war Eva has carefully rebuilt her life as a typically English wife & mother But once a spy always a spy Now she must complete one final assignment & this time Eva can't do it alone she needs her daughter's help ...

1969 Bristol Bajan ex-cop & reluctant private detective Joseph JT' Tremaine Ellington is still trading in cash & favours lending a helping hand to those too scared to go to the police or anyone trying to stay one step ahead of them Life is tough for JT who is broke It is about to get a lot tougher when he receives a telegram informing him of a tragedy that has unfolded thousands of miles away Ellington's sister Bernice has been murdered Ellington wants to make the long journey back to his home on the island of Barbados to pay his final respects & to settle his late sister's affairs To do so he must accept a ticket from his shady cousin Vic on condition he travels to New York first where Vic is building himself a criminal empire in Harlem Vic appoints the beguiling Evagelina Laveau to mind his cousin along with his henchmen Clefus Horton & a hot-headed Bajun Pigfoot a man always quick with his knife JT soon discovers that Vic is the American end of an operation that stretches back to Barbados & that Vic's business partner is Conrad Monroe the man responsible for the death of JT's wife & daughter & as JT finds himself embroiled in the world of drugs bent law voodoo & the bitter legacy of slavery he must return to the island of his birth & face the demons of his past ...

A billion-year history of movementfrom bacteria to Olympic athletes ' Packed with revelations scholarly but clear Restless Creatures carriesyou from the kinetics of the amoeba to that of the blue whale from theswim-cycle of spermatozoa to why skipping works best on the moon Apop-science treat' Gavin Francis author of Adventures in Human Being Despite the overwhelming diversity of life on earth one theme hasdominated its evolution the apparently simple act of moving from one place toanother Restless Creatures is the first book for a generalaudience telling the incredible story of locomotion in human & animalevolution Evolutionary biologist Matt Wilkinson traces this 4-billion-yearhistory showing why our ancestors became two-legged how movement explains whywe have opposable thumbs & a backbone how fish fins became limbs how eventrees are locomotion-obsessed & how movement has shaped our minds as well asour bodies He explains why there are no flying monkeys or biological wheelshow dinosaurs took to the air how Mexican waves were the making of the animalkingdom & why moving can make us feel good Restless Creatures opens up an astonishing new perspective -that little in evolution makes sense unless in the light of movement ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play From acclaimed director Gus Van Sant (Good Will Hunting Milk) comes a quirky coming-of-age love story between a young man (Henry Hopper) who has given up on life & a beautiful charming young girl (Mia Wasikowska) who possesses a deep-felt love of life & the natural world When these two outsiders chance to meet at a funeral they find an unexpected common ground in their unique experiences of the world Age Rating 12 ...

' It never stops being a page-turner a great debut' Colum Mc Cann'A terrific debut novel bold & wise each page lit with wit & with feeling' Jonathan Lee' The funniest sad book I've read in a long time A terrific debut from a dynamic new writer' J Robert Lennon Tom Karl & Baz grew up together in down-on-its-luck Dublin Friends since childhood their lives diverged when Tom left home to be a war correspondent Now after three years embedded in the Siege of Sarajevo he returns a haunted shell of the lad who went away Karl & Baz have no idea what they're doing but they are determined to see him through the darkness even if it means travelling halfway around the world Hearing about an unlikely cure
- an experimental clinic called Restless Souls
- they embark on a road trip across California But as they try to save Tom from his memories they must confront their own
- of what happened to their childhood friend Gabriel & in doing so they must ask how their boisterous teenage souls became weighed down & why life got so damn complicated & sad


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The plays are fully annotated for the modern reader & are accompanied by six illustrations The close relationship between theater & society during the period continues to be the focus of Contexts The editor offers contemporary discussions of the following topics On Wit Humour & Laughter 1660-1775 The Collier Controversy 1698 Steele & Dennis On The Man of Mode & The Conscious Lovers & Stages Actors & Audiences Criticism has been revised to reflect approaches in scholarly interpretations Two seminal essays from the First Edition have been retained-Charles Lamb's appreciation of the period's comedy & L C Knights's condemnation of it New essays by Jocelyn Powell Harriet Hawkins Elin Diamond Martin Price & Laura Brown have been added ...