Difference between REST Services and Restless SOAP Services Example

REST: Representational State Transfer
REST is an style of software architecture for distributed software.
RESTful is just used as an adjective describing something that respects the REST constraints.

RESTful web service has 4 basic characteristics which are:

• Use HTTP methods explicitly.
• Be stateless.
• Expose directory structure-like URIs.
• Transfer XML, JavaScript Object Notation (JSON), or both.

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