What is REST

  • REpresentational State Transfer and its an architecture
  • REST Uses HTTP protocol for the communication
  • It was developed to overcome the limitation SOAP. And to make the web services light weight
  • In REST “REpresentational” means, resource can be represent in different format such as text, JSON and XML
  • Web Service developed using REST architecture aka RESTful Apis
  • Used to expose a public API over the internet to handle CRUD operations on data

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