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Restful Objects is a standard covering RESTful interfaces to domain object models. The specification is published under a Creative Commons license . Representations and resources defined by the standard
REST (Representational State Transfer) is a software architectural style that was created to describe the design and guide the development of the architecture for the World Wide Web. REST defines a set of constraints for how the architecture of a distributed, Internet-scale hypermedia system, such as the Web
A REST client needs little to no prior knowledge about how to interact with an application or server beyond a generic understanding of hypermedia. By contrast, clients and servers in Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) interact through a fixed interface shared through documentation or an interface description language (IDL).
A Web API is a development in Web services where emphasis has been moving to simpler representational state transfer (REST) based communications. [2] Restful APIs do not require XML-based Web service protocols (SOAP and WSDL) to support their interfaces.
An example of a popular web API is the Astronomy Picture of the Day API operated by the American space agency NASA. It is a server-side API used to retrieve photographs of space or other images of interest to astronomers, and metadata about the images. According to the API documentation, [15] the API has one endpoint:
End-to-End Java framework for Google App Engine including comprehensive Data Authorization model, a powerful RESTful engine, and out-of-the-box UI views. REST, OData, JSON: Jersey: Java Client/Server Jersey is the reference implementation for the JAX-RS specification by Oracle (Originally Sun) REST.NET Framework: C#, VB.NET Client/Server
There are two previous major description languages: WSDL 2.0 (Web Services Description Language) and WADL (Web Application Description Language). Neither is widely adopted in the industry for describing RESTful APIs, citing poor human readability of both and WADL being actually unable to fully describe a RESTful API.
The aim of the research of the model as stated by the author was to find out the relationship between the constraints of REST and other forms of web services. [1] It divides the principal parts of RESTful design into three steps: resource identification , HTTP verbs, and hypermedia controls (e.g. hyperlinks). [2]