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.

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.

This article will take you through creating a simple RESTful web service with Spring Boot and Aerospike, a distributed and replicated in-memory NoSQL database.

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

Taking a RESTful approach to developing APIs makes integration easier as software developers can concentrate on resources as well as services.

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 ...

Gain API testing confidence with this hands-on podcast course, featuring 30 ten-minute activities that build your skills step by step.

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 ...