Competing architectures on the Web
As a group of web services, it is important to outline the competition that is happening between three main services, which are RESTful services, the RPC-style ones, and the combination of these two, which are hybrid REST-RPC combinations.
RESTful architectures
Our main concern is the RESTful web service architectures, which is why we will start with an overview of them. Within the architectures of the RESTful systems, information goes straight to the HTTP method, while in resource-oriented architectures, the information goes into the URL. Within the first line of the request sent to HTTP to a resource-oriented RESTful web service lies the info about the desire of the client. The remaining details can be made with ...
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