SOA Glossary - REST (Representational State Transfer)

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This glossary supports the following titles:

SOA Governance

SOA with .NET & Azure

SOA Design Patterns

Web Service Contract Design & Versioning for SOA

SOA Principles of Service Design

Service-Oriented Architecture: Concepts, Technology, and Design

Modern SOA Infrastructure: Technology, Design, and Governance

SOA with REST: Principles, Patterns & Constraints

Next Generation SOA: A Real-World Guide to Modern Service-Oriented Computing

SOA with Java

SOA Security: Practices, Patterns, and Technologies for Securing Services

SOA and Cloud Computing: Practices, Patterns, Technologies

This glossary also supports the SOA Certified Professional (SOACP) program.

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REST (Representational State Transfer)

(contributed by Hugo Haas and Thomas Erl)

REST (Representational State Transfer) is an architectural style for distributed hypermedia systems. It is a formal definition of core design principles of the World Wide Web and the HTTP/1.1 protocol and advocates a design approach for constructing distributed systems based on the notion of resources.

REST provides an alternative implementation medium for the creation of services comprised of service-oriented logic.

The creation of REST services in support of SOA and service-oriented computing is being explored in the book "SOA with REST" (see www.soabooks.com for more information).