REST services REST stand for REpresentational State Transfer. It is an architectural style for developing web services. It is primarily used to build web services that are lightweight, maintainable , and scalable. REST is not depend on any protocol , but almost every RESTful service uses HTTP as its underlying protocol. Service architects and developers want this service to be easy to implement, maintainable, extensible, and scalable. What are the features of RESTful services?? Representations Messages URIs Uniform interface Stateless Links between resources Caching What is representation?? Representation describe how resources get manipulated. Once we have identified our resources, the next thing we need is to find a way to represent these resources in our system. We can use any format for representing the resources, REST does not put a restriction on the format of a representation. Eg: AJAX calls or JSON can be used t...
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