RESTful Java Web Services - Third Edition

Uniform resource identifier

You may see the term Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) used very frequently in the rest of the chapter. A URI is a text that identifies any resource or name on the internet. One can further classify a URI as a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) if the text used for identifying the resource also holds the means for accessing the resource, such as HTTP or FTP. The following is one such example:

https://www.packtpub.com/application-development

In general, all URLs such as https://www.packtpub.com/application-development are URIs. To learn more about URIs, visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_resource_identifier.