Friday, November 10, 2006

Rest Webservices

What is Rest and what are Rest-Webservices?
Representational State Transfer is intended to evoke an image of how a well-designed Web application behaves: a network of web pages (a virtual state-machine), where the user progresses through an application by selecting links (state transitions), resulting in the next page (representing the next state of the application) being transferred to the user and rendered for their use.

— Dr. Roy Fielding, Architectural Styles and the Design of Network-based Software Architectures

Recommended articles about Rest:
- Rest-Webservices (german article)
- Definiton of Rest at answers.com

Statements about Rest:
- Amazon has both SOAP and REST interfaces to their web services, and 85% of their usage is of the REST interface REST vs. SOAP at Amazon

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