RESTful Web Service

What it is

• REST architecture based web services
• everything is a resource
• light weight, scalable & maintainable

REST

• REpresentational State Transfer
• HTTP for communication / access to resource
• Resource
  • identified by URIs / global IDs
  • representation varies - text, JSON (most popular), XML
• HTTP methods
  • GET - read only access
  • PUT - create a new resource
  • DELETE - remove a resource
  • POST - update an existing resource or create a new resource
  • OPTIONS - get supported operations