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Essentials of Cloud Application Development on IBM Bluemix
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Essentials of Cloud Application Development on IBM Bluemix

by Ahmed Azraq, Hala A. Aziz, Mohamed El-Khouly, Sally Fikry, Ahmed S. Hassan, Ben Smith
August 2017
Beginner to intermediate
186 pages
3h 14m
English
IBM Redbooks
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REST architecture and Watson APIs
This unit covers the following topics:
Representational State Transfer (REST)
JavaScript Object Notation (JSON)
Example: Using REST APIs with Watson
5.1 What you should be able to do
After completion of this unit, you should be able to:
Describe the characteristics of REST APIs.
Explain the advantages of the JSON data format.
Describe an example of REST APIs using Watson.
5.2 References
The following publications are useful for further research on the topic presented in this unit:
REST APIs:
 – ECMA-262 ...
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