The key difference between the terms REST versus RESTful is that REST refers to a philosophy about the architecture and design of web services, while the term RESTful refers to any API that properly ...
REST is one of the most influential ideas in distributed architecture. Here's why it matters and how to understand RESTful services in theory and practice. REST, or Representational State Transfer, is ...
The latest trends in software development from the Computer Weekly Application Developer Network. This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by David Brown in his position ...
The Hypertext Transport Protocol requires all HTTP methods to declare whether they are idempotent or not. With an idempotent HTTP method, multiple invocations always leave the data on the server in ...