Gil Shefer's List: Web Development

• REST Web Services Characteristics

    Here are the characteristics of REST:   
   
  • Client-Server: a pull-based interaction style: consuming components pull   representations.
   
  • Stateless: each request from client to server must contain all the   information necessary to understand the request, and cannot take advantage   of any stored context on the server.
   
  • Cache: to improve network efficiency responses must be capable of being   labeled as cacheable or non-cacheable.
   
  • Uniform interface: all resources are accessed with a generic interface   (e.g., HTTP GET, POST, PUT, DELETE).
   
  • Named resources - the system is comprised of resources which are named   using a URL.
   
  • Interconnected resource representations - the representations of the   resources are interconnected using URLs, thereby enabling a client to   progress from one state to another.
   
  • Layered components - intermediaries, such as proxy servers, cache servers,  gateways, etc, can be inserted between clients and resources to support  performance, security, etc.
• Client-Server
• Stateless
• Uniform interface
• Named resources
• using a URL
• Interconnected resource representations
• identify all of the conceptual entities that you wish to expose as services
• Create a URL to each resource
• just receive a  representation of the resource
• clients can modify (add to) the  resource
• HTTP GET
• HTTP POST

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