Describing the RESTful services paradigm

The developing trend in the software engineering space is that applications are now being made out of multiple services through integration, orchestration, and choreography. Workflows are the prominent unifying factor. That is, they help to identify the relevant services, and the chosen services get integrated into proper sequencing to arrive at competent composite services and applications. The challenge is to service discovery, access, assess, and use. There are communication and data transmission protocols to facilitate service-to-service interactions and collaborations. The REST approach is becoming easy to understand and use. This section will describe how REST is streamlined and how interactive ...

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