Introduction

You all know about Web Services—which took the web development world by storm a few years ago. Web Services have been instrumental in constructing Web APIs (Application Programming Interface) and making the web applications work as Service-Oriented Architecture. In the new Web 2.0 world, however, many criticisms arose around traditional Web Services—thus RESTful services came into the picture. REST (Representational State Transfer) attempts to expose the APIs using HTTP or similar protocol and interfaces using well-known, light-weight and standard methods such as GET, POST, PUT, DELETE, and so on.

Alfresco Web Scripts provide RESTful APIs of the repository services and functions. Traditionally, ECM systems have been exposing the interfaces using RPC (Remote Procedure Call)—but gradually it turned out that RPC-based APIs are not particularly suitable in the wide Internet arena where multiple environments and technologies reside together and talk seamlessly. In the case of...