Learn REST: A Tutorial

A fast-training course for REST - Representational State Transfer, a new approach to systems architecture and a lightweight alternative to web services

1. What is REST?

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REST stands for Re presentational S tate T ransfer. (It is sometimes spelled "ReST".) It relies on a stateless, client-server, cac...
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2. REST as Lightweight Web Services

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As a programming approach, REST is a lightweight alternative to Web Services and RPC. Much like Web Services, a REST service is: Platform-in...
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3. How Simple is REST?

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Let's take a simple web service as an example: querying a phonebook application for the details of a given user. All we have is the user...
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4. More Complex REST Requests

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The previous section included a simple example for a REST request -- with a single parameter. REST can easily handle more complex requests, ...
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5. REST Server Responses

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A server response in REST is often an XML file; for example, <parts-list> <part id="3322"> <name>ACME Boomera...
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