This means that, for example, a Web site that serves up content enlivened by Dynamic HTML (DHTML) is essentially a Web application despite the fact that the actual processing occurs in the browser ...

Every working web developer today is required to understand both the basic principles of REST (the theory) and how they are widely applied in RESTful applications and interfaces (the practice).

For example, when SOAP was first introduced back in 1998, it was an XML-based protocol for remote procedure calls (RPC). Everyone who was interested in RPC over the Web had to learn how to write ...