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<title>Books You Can Read</title>
<para>There are a number of great books that you can learn REST and &REST-API; from</para>
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<ulink url="http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596529260/">RESTful Web Services</ulink> by Leonard Richardson and Sam Ruby.  A great introduction to REST.
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<ulink url="http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596158040/">RESTful Java with JAX-RS</ulink> by Bill Burke.  Overview of REST and detailed explanation of JAX-RS.  
Book examples are distributed with RESTEasy.
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<listitem>
<ulink url="http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596808679/">RESTful Web Services Cookbook</ulink> by Subbu Allamaraju and Mike Amundsen.  Detailed cookbook on how to design RESTful services.
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</chapter>
