I read it and was surprised at how readable I found it (never mind being a dissertation). http://www.ics.uci.edu/~fielding/pubs/dissertation/top.htm http://www

I read it and was surprised at how readable I found it (never mind being a dissertation). http://www.ics.uci.edu/~fielding/pubs/dissertation/top.htm http://www.ics.uci.edu/~fielding/pubs/dissertation/top.htm What is also really good is Richardson and Ruby's "RESTful Web Services" book. They coined the term "Resource Oriented Architecture" to describe a specific REST design implementation and to side-step a religious war on what is and is not REST.