REST is one of the main models that has been described by Roy Fielding, one of the principal creators of the HTTP protocol, in his Ph.D. thesis and adopted as the model to be used in the evolution of the HTTP protocol architecture.
The Embarcadero REST Library is accessible for all platforms, supported by Delphi.
The framework focuses on JSON as the representation format. The XML format is not supported.
The Embarcadero REST Library consists of three main components—the request, the client, and the response. All are part of a single workflow when submitting, processing, and returning the request with JSON.
