What’s important to realize is that REST, however ubiquitous, is not a standard, per se, but an approach, a style, a set of constraints on your architecture that can help you build web-scale systems.

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The service definition defines what is the format of the request and response. It’s the contract between the service provider and the service consumer. Request/Response format. Request structure.

It's time to give intelligent rest a chance. People who are supremely creative creatively use rest. Look at Darwin, Einstein, and G.H. Hardy. Some of the greatest geniuses “worked” only four hours a ...

One of the key strengths of REST is its simplicity, but that simplicity sometimes raises objections from developers who question whether such a simple approach to application integration can deal with ...

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