If there are any other helpful links on REST implementation, particularly working with legacy systems who are not already RESTful, that would be helpful for my start-up.
Otherwise, i'll just keep googling. thanks!
To send an event to a client, though, means the server must have some sort of awareness of the client. Otherwise, it wouldn't know to send the client a message in the first place.
So, can you have events in conjunction with REST? Sure. Just realize once you do that, your application isn't 100% RESTful. It's RESTful and... RESTless I guess :)