RESTful Web services made easy Learn the basics about RESTful web services in this quick tip. You can create a RESTful Web service using nothing more than the JDK, a simple text editor and Tomcat 7.

Is Web services development too complicated? A small but influential group of Web developers thinks so. These developers advocate a new approach – one they say is simpler than the World Wide Web ...

Many Web API designers claim their are RESTful, but their APIs have little in common with REST. What can be done to make a web service API truly RESTful?

Enterprises have probably heard of REST before. Companies may even have experience with building RESTful services. But what many may not have considered is how REST can help create web and mobile ...

Ruby on Rails 2.0, a planned upgrade to the open-source Web framework, will feature REST (Representational State Transfer) as its preferred choice for Web services, the developer of the framework ...

REST was implemented as a hack on top of HTTP. An often-cited reason to use RESTful web services is that it’s easy to debug because its “human readable”. Not being easy to read is a tooling ...

Service-oriented architecture implemented with SOAP-based web services requires more rigid and formal service definitions than RESTful web services or microservices.

RESTful parameters promote an ease of use and resource access, but an improper setup can plague your search features and open the door for improper queries and paths that are difficult to fix.