REST is one of the most influential ideas in distributed architecture. Here's why it matters and how to understand RESTful services in theory and practice. REST, or Representational State Transfer, is ...

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These days, REST APIs are available to integrate your application or website with thousands of platforms — Web 2.0 properties such as Twitter, Facebook, and Foursquare, as well as old-school companies ...

A popular tutorial on how to create REST web services with Eclipse and the TomEE Plus application server regrettably caused some confusion. A number of readers tried to deploy the application to a ...