Re: [Nolug] REST

REST is a very useful approach to web application development. Great
if the core of your application revolves around CRUD behaviors. REST
is my standard approach for building APIs that are accessed via HTTP.

-James

On Jun 24, 2009, at 6:42 PM, Joey Kelly wrote:

> On Wed June 24 2009 5:56 pm, Jonathan Roberts wrote:
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representational_State_Transfer
>>
>> *Representational state transfer* (*REST*) is a style of software
>> architecture <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_architecture> for
>> distributed hypermedia <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypermedia>
>> systems
>> such as the World Wide Web <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Wide_Web
>> >.
>>
>>
>> "Hypermedia" - wow, I haven't heard that one in a while..
>
> REST has more going for it than random buzzwords.
>
> --
> Joey Kelly
> Minister of the Gospel and Linux Consultant
> http://joeykelly.net

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