The REST style of services
REST stands for Representational State Transfer and perhaps the most important thing to realize about REST is that it is an architecture style and not a standard (like SOAP). What do we mean by this?
An architectural style is an accumulation of a set of design elements and constraints that can be tailored to define communication and interaction for a system. The elements in an architecture style are abstracted to ignore the implementation and protocol syntax and focus more on the role of the component. Additionally, constraints are applied to define the communication and extensibility patterns for these elements.
The focus of the REST architectural style is to improve the performance, portability, simplicity, reliability, ...
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