REST

Representational State Transfer (REST) is a term that describes a set computer system architectural principles.

REST emerged from a retrospective extrapolation of those architectural features of the World Wide Web that are the proven basis for the phenomenal scaling and adaptability properties of the Web. Whilst some facets of REST are evolving, the fundamental notions are well established - indeed some of the core characteristics were established 40 years ago on the Unix operating system.

NetKernel extends the REST fundamentals in standards compliant ways to create a computing abstraction that works for local software systems as well as the global World Wide Web. NetKernel enables the development of applications which exhibit the same performance, scaling, and adaptability properties as the Web.