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This article will take you through the some of basic concepts involved in RESTful Service.
What is REST?
The acronym REST stands for REpresentational State Transfer, this basically means that each unique URL is a representation of some object.
In the web services world, REpresentational State Transfer (REST) is a key design idiom that embraces a stateless client-server architecture in which the web services are viewed as resources and can be identified by their URLs. Web service clients that want to use these resources can get a content of using HTTP GET, modify the content using HTTP POST or HTTP UPDATE or delete the resource using HTTP DELETE.
REST - An Architectural Style, Not a Standard
REST is not a standard. You will not see the W3C putting out a REST specification. Because REST is just an architectural style. You can design your web services in that style by understanding it.