REST API and RESTful Service
Hello friends, I've been working on a project that uses REST API and I found it interesting. Just thought of sharing with you all :) As you might have probably know, A service that is created upon the architecture of REST is called as Rest service. Although REST looks more inclined to web and HTTP its principles can be applied to other distributed communication systems as well. I found that World Wide Web(WWW) is one of the real implementation of REST architecture. RESTful services or REST based services are easy to create and cab be consumed from variety of devices. Little bit more about REST, REST stands for "Representational State Transfer" and that represents a set of principles for creating distributed applications in web. Unlike the traditional RPC-style SOAP services which are using HTTP just as a transport layer, REST uses all the advantages of the HTTP. For example request verbs, URI, media-types, caching, security and all. Since REST services works lik...