REST
What is REST? Representational State Transfer (REST) is usually defined as a software architecture style that applies some constraints to a web service. It identifies a set of resource-centric rules that describe the roles and the interaction between the constraints of a distributed hypermedia system, instead of focusing on the implementation of the components. Although it is quite rare to find a REST service that does not use HTTP, the definition does not mention any of these topics and instead describes REST as media- and protocol-agnostic.
The preceding definition can be further explained with an example. Consider an e-commerce website. When you browse a list of products and click on one them, the browser interprets your click as ...
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