REST: Second Generation Web Services
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Introduction
Representational State Transfer (REST) is a style of software architecture for distributed hypermedia systems such as the World Wide Web. The term originated in a doctoral dissertation about the web written in 2000 by Roy Fielding, one of the principal authors of the HTTP protocol specification, and has quickly passed into widespread use in the networking community.Documents
• Architectural Styles and the Design of Network-based Software Architectures• Architectural Styles and the Design of Network-based Software Architectures 中文版
• RESTful Web Services
• REST
Links
• Roy T. Fielding• http://www.answers.com/topic/representational-state-transfer