CHAPTER 5
Spring REST
In this chapter, you will learn how Spring addresses Representational State Transfer, usually referred to by its acronym REST. REST has had an important impact on web applications since the term was coined by Roy Fielding (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Fielding) in the year 2000.
Based on the foundations of the web’s protocol Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP), the architecture set forth by REST has become increasingly popular in the implementation of web services.
Web services in and of themselves have become the cornerstone for much machine-to-machine communication taking place on the Web. It’s the fragmented technology ...
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