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REST: Representational State Transfer

Overview Until now the focus has been XML-RPC and SOAP-based web services. However, recent developments in this field show that these methods don't cover all available web services. One alternative is Representational State Transfer, or REST. Despite the long history (in Internet time) and large number of applications that run the Internet, this approach for developing distributed applications wasn't popular until recently. The main questions that motivated the development of the REST architectural style were: how to introduce a new set of functionality to an architecture that is already widely deployed and how to ensure that its introduction doesn't adversely impact, or even destroy, the architectural properties that have enabled the Web to succeed.

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Publisher: O'Reilly Media
File Format: PDF
Date Published: Oct 17, 2007
Format: White Papers
Topics: Web Content Management, Web Development and Design

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