Think this is a valid answer, albeit not a very helpful one - perhaps a code sample could be added.@Waqas, if you don't think it is good please just down-vote rather than flag for deletion. Thanks.

Trevor's answer is "no it isn't possible". Not sure what more he can do but if you don't think his answer is helpful then feel free to down-vote, but I don't think flag for deletion is necessary or helpful.

Welcome to SharePoint.Stackexchange.com! Your contributions here are welcome, but we don't allow promotion of products in answers. Your other answer was in response to a question specifically asking for book suggestions which is fair enough, But for the avoidance of doubt I have edited this to remove possible advertising that doesn't seem essential to the answer. Thanks.

This is more of a discussion than a specific question. Please feel free to edit this to ask something specific and request it to be re-opened, or another option might be to ask it on the SPServices site.

This doesn't really answer the question. Please expand your answer to give a bit more information, otherwise you risk being downvoted. Thanks.

Moved to a comment against the question - @paul-strupeikis please feel free to expand with original content here so we can undelete your answer. Thanks.

Yes, ListData.svc is only there for backward compatibility where clients may have been written against earlier versions of SharePoint. Use _api (i.e. _vti_bin/Client.svc) for REST calls moving forward.