Creating REST Services

Representational State Transfer (REST) is an architecture for software distributed hypertext systems such as the World Wide Web. The term REST was introduced in 2000 in the doctoral dissertation by one of the principal authors of Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP), Roy Fielding, and was quickly adopted by the developer community on the Internet. The term REST is often used in the sense of describing any simple interface that transmits data over HTTP without an optional layer, such as SOAP or session management via cookies. These two concepts may conflict as well as overlap. You can design any complex software system in accordance with the REST architecture fielding without using HTTP and not interact with the World Wide Web. You can also design a simple XML + HTTP interface that does not conform to the REST principles and instead, follow a Remote Procedure...