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.

RESTful Web services made easy Learn the basics about RESTful web services in this quick tip. You can create a RESTful Web service using nothing more than the JDK, a simple text editor and Tomcat 7.

Consume the Web API using RestSharp Now that our Web API is ready for use, let’s start consuming it. Create another project – this time a Console application project to keep it simple.

But API logic is the essence of the informational side of the equation, and following an architectural style like REST makes determining this logic a lot simpler. And though you could go another ...

“Everyone feels the need to write a custom authentication protocol” says George Reese, which he claims is one of the things he learnt working on a programming API for cloud providers and Saas ...

RESTful APIs are flexible, sensible and provide for a great deal of loose coupling, but if an application architect is looking for an effective way to describe the RESTful API in a manner similar to ...

Many discussions of Web APIs get hung up on the finer points of REST APIs and whether a given RESTful API actually follows REST principles. For the record, I set out to find a good example of someone ...

Example: Todd is the Architect and Lead Developer for a large RESTful web API built to sit on top of a large ERP system. Todd and team were recently informed that an outside vendor would be building a ...

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 ...