Representational state transfer
Representational state transfer (REST) is a software architecture that was made to guide the development of the World Wide Web. Systems which implement REST are called 'RESTful' systems. REST documents a way for computer systems to communicate with each other using HTTP requests.
HTTP Verbs
- GET fetches a resource.
- POST creates a resource.
- PUT updates a resource.
- DELETE deletes a resource.
Representational State Transfer Media
Roy Fielding speaking at OSCON 2008
An entity-relationship model of the concepts expressed in the REST architectural style
