CHAPTER 2
Building RESTful Services
One of the important characteristics of the popular web APIs in use today is that they are RESTful services, or at least they are not SOAP based.
Just because I have built an HTTP service that handles XML or JSON payloads and respond to HTTP methods such as GET, POST, PUT, and DELETE, I cannot claim that I have built a RESTful service. In this chapter, we see what it takes for an HTTP service to be called RESTful. We then build our first web API, a simple Hello-World API.
What Is a RESTful Service?
Representational State Transfer (REST)is an architectural style. The term REST was introduced and defined by Roy ...
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