Representational state transfer (REST) is a style of software architecture having some principles:
- It should be stateless
- It should access all the resources from the server using only URI
- It does not have inbuilt encryption
- It does not have session
- It uses one and only one protocol - HTTP
- For performing CRUD operations, it should use HTTP verbs such as get, post, put and delete
- It should return the result only in the form of JSON or XML, atom, OData etc. (lightweight data )
REST based services follow some of the above principles and not all.
RESTFUL services mean it follows all the above principles.
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