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These days, REST APIs are available to integrate your application or website with thousands of platforms — Web 2.0 properties such as Twitter, Facebook, and Foursquare, as well as old-school companies ...

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 ...

It's not hard to create a RESTful web service in Java. In fact, frameworks like Spring Boot, the Eclipse MicroProfile and Jakarta Enterprise Edition make the development of RESTful Java applications ...

RESTful services are stateless, client-server based, cacheable and leverage resources. These resources have a common interface and are uniquely addressable using URIs. In this post, I’ll present some ...

Is Web services development too complicated? A small but influential group of Web developers thinks so. These developers advocate a new approach – one they say is simpler than the World Wide Web ...

Open source projects are emerging to further software development practices based on RESTful APIs, which are becoming more instrumental in providing app back-end services and other functionality. To ...

If you want to build lightweight, fast, REST APIs, or provide server support for AJAX-intense Rich Internet Applications such as Gmail, or develop scalable systems that can support thousands of ...