Representational State Transfer is the software architecture of the world wide web. You can use this architecture to build distributed systems - it's an alternative to SOAP (see SoapWebServicesNotes).

http://rest.blueoxen.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?FrontPage - the REST wiki
http://www.prescod.net/rest/mistakes/ - don't make these mistakes
http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2004/12/01/restful-web.html - the first in a series of good columns about building RESTful web services.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/389169/best-practices-for-api-versioning - discussion of best practices for API versioning.


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