Implementing Domain-Driven Design

Contributed by Stefan Tilkov

REST has become one of the most used, and abused, architecture buzzwords of the last few years. As usual, different people think about different things when they use the acronym. To some, REST means sending XML over HTTP connections without using SOAP; some equate it with using HTTP and JSON; others believe that to do REST you need to send method arguments as URI query parameters. All of these interpretations are wrong, but luckily—and vastly different from many other concepts such as “components” or “SOA”—there is an authoritative source for what REST means: the dissertation by Roy T. Fielding, which coined the term and defines it very clearly.