Chapter 8. Give REST to Your Application with Ajax
REST stands for Representational State Transfer and is a style of web application architecture. Everything in REST is considered as a resource, and every resource is identified by a URI. RESTful web services have been embraced by large service providers across the Web as an alternative to SOAP-based web services due to its simplicity.
After finishing this chapter, you will have a clear idea about the following:
- REST web services
- Ajax
Introducing REST
As I already mentioned, in a REST-based application, everything, including static resources, data, and operations, are considered as resources and identified by a URI. For example, consider a piece of functionality that can help us add a new product ...
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