Do you know what your enterprise applications get up to in their time off? Fighting fantasy, pick-your-path, hypermedia-driven, RESTful Web application adventures. Of course.

Hypermedia applications make good on the SOA vision of a distributed system based on evolutionary, easily composed application protocols. In this entertaining dungeon delve we'll tackle the many-headed Hydra of HATEOAS, the "Hypermedia as the Engine of Application State" monster, level up through Leonard Richardson's Web Services Maturity Heuristic, and meet the dwarves with grudges.

Keywords: REST, SOA, Enterprise integration, hypermedia

Target audience: Distributed systems developers and architects, and anyone curious about REST's place in the enterprise