REST Design Pattern and Best Practices
There is lot of material available on net about the REST design pattern and REST way of services but still to get started you need to read a few before you could make a call. I have tried to summarize my beginning to make it easier for others. REST: The Style of Architecture REST ( REpresentation State Transfer) is the way the whole web is organized. Web is a collection of resources which can be identified with a URI which are globally identifiable. People do struggle to define REST. One wrong statement is "REST is a communication Protocol". REST is not protocol; it is just a style of software architecture for distributed system. REST style of Architecture shows following characteristics: As opposed to the procedure based approach of SOAP, REST follows the action based approach to act on a resource. The actions can be described in the form of four verbs: (In HTTP world these are referred to as Methods. T