What are RESTful Web Service?

What are RESTful Web Service?


RESTful web services are built to work best on the Web. Representational State Transfer (REST) is an architectural style that specifies constraints, such as the uniform interface, that if applied to a web service induce desirable properties, such as performance, scalability, and modifiability, that enable services to work best on the Web. In the REST architectural style, data and functionality are considered resources and are accessed using Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs), typically links on the Web. The resources are acted upon by using a set of simple, well-defined operations. The REST architectural style constrains an architecture to a client/server architecture and is designed to use a stateless communication protocol, typically HTTP. In the REST architecture style, clients and servers exchange representations of resources by using a standardized interface and protocol.


TABLE1–1 Mapping HTTP Methods to Operations Performed
 HTTP Method Operations Performed
 GET Get a resource
 POST Create a resource and other operations, as it has no defined semantics
 PUT Create or update a resource
 DELETE Delete a resource

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