Hands-On RESTful API Design Patterns and Best Practices

Summary

Let's summarize what we have covered in this chapter and what we can take away in the context of the REST architectural style. We started with a brief history of the evolution of the World Wide Web, its layers, and its architecture. Then we moved on to the web API, a development model for web services, and how REST-based services communicate with existing web protocols with simplified representations.

We looked briefly at SOA and also in more detail at ROA. We covered the purpose of ROA (to use simplified, well-understood and well-known web technologies along with core design principles), its principles, and its characteristics as well. After setting the ground with ROA, we got introduced to the concept of REST; the mandatory constraints ...