Wednesday, June 27, 2007

REST - An Architectural Style, Not a Standard

REST is an acronym standing for Representational State Transfer.

Description: A representation of the resource is returned (e.g., Boeing747.html). The representation

places the client application in a state. The result of the client traversing a hyperlink in Boeing747.html

is another resource is accessed. The new representation places the client application into yet another

state. Thus, the client application changes (transfers) state with each resource

representation --> Representational State Transfer!