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.

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 ...

In this step-by-step Spring Boot RESTful web services example, we'll implement that scenario using the Spring Web APIs and the Eclipse based SpringSource Tool Suite (STS) as the IDE. Review of the ...

Craig McClanahan, from Sun Microsystems, provides answers as to why existing "REST" APIs don't really take advantage of using Hypermedia as the Engine of Application State (HATEOAS) in RESTful ...

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.

Microsoft’s ASP.NET Web API is a lightweight framework you can use to build stateless RESTful services that run on HTTP. Exceptions are errors that occur at runtime, and exception handling is ...

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 ...