As Red Hat reminds us, “REST is a set of architectural constraints, not a protocol or a standard. API developers can implement REST in a variety of ways.” Push APIs into streaming data Over on ...

Currently, I think that RESTful APIs are extremely interesting but seldom mentioned in association with simple web applications such as the ones that I will work on, and, therefore, going for a ...

Make it simple to use Following on from the “make it simple to understand” principle is taking a RESTful approach to modeling APIs. This means using HTTP resources and actions the same way a ...

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.

Nouns, verbs and well-formed URIs At the very least, a RESTful API respects REST's uniform interface constraint in two ways: Using nouns in RESTful URIs to ensure web service operations work on ...

REST APIs call resources and allow software to communicate using standardised principles, properties and constraints. REST APIs operate on a simple request/response system.

It’s easy to get sloppy in your APIs, so here’s a refresher on how to be correctly RESTful in your client scripts Recently, I was trying to write a little client script for Apache Solr. It was ...

Let's start with a simple example. We'll need an existing REST API to work with. Browsing around on the Internet, I come across a REST API called Cat Facts. This API returns various facts about our ...

SmartBear releases API exploration tool that supports REST and event-driven specifications, giving developers instant visibility into API limitations ...