RESTful services are stateless, client-server based, cacheable and leverage resources. These resources have a common interface and are uniquely addressable using URIs. In this post, I’ll present ...

It's rare for a RESTful API or web service to fully comply with REST's six architectural constraints. However, most solution architects strive to respect the HTTP protocol's methods. They use resource ...

REST is defined not as a technology or a set of standards -- it is rather a set of constraints and is based on a cacheable, stateless communication protocol. A RESTful API is defined as one that ...

REST in practice: RESTful APIs These days, the most common approach to REST doesn’t work the way it was originally conceived. Instead, developers typically use an HTTP API and JSON to provide ...