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by Vindhya Nagaraj
1. REST Introduction
The usage of Twitter, Amazon, Google Maps, e-bay and many other applications has become extensive. The ease of development and access of such applications is due to the implementation of a web service which is simple yet supports complex functionalities; called Representational State Transfer (REST).
Before starting with REST lets understand what a Web service is. A Web service is a software system designed to support interoperable machine-to-machine interaction over a network. In layman terms they are the calls made by the application to a service present on the web to perform the specified actions.
REST was introduced and defined in 2000 by Roy Fielding. Rest is a stateless architecture which uses a client-server, cacheable communication protocol HTTP. It is an Application Programming Interface (API) which performs all the functions using HTTP methods.
Features of RESTful Web Services:
1. Client-server module:
REST has uniform interface with different separates clients from servers. Servers and clients may be replaced and developed independently, as long as the interface between them is not altered.
2. Stateless:
The RESTful Web Service does not maintain state; the client–server communication is further constrained by no client context being stored on the server between requests. The server does not store any client specific data. Each request from the client contains all of the information necessary to service the request, and any session state is held in the client.
3. Cacheable:
REST web services allow the....
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