RESTful API Building
An Application Programming Interface (API) can be summarized as a developer’s interface with an application. Just as end users have a visible frontend user interface with which they can work on and talk to the application, developers also need an interface to it. Representational State Transfer (REST) is not a protocol or a standard. It is just a software architectural style or a set of suggestions defined for writing applications, the aim of which is to simplify the interfaces within and without the application. When web service APIs are written in a way that adheres to the REST definitions, then they are known as RESTful APIs. Being RESTful keeps the API decoupled from the internal application details. This results in ease of scalability and keeps things simple. The uniform interface ensures that each and every request is documented.
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It is a topic of debate as to whether REST or simple object access protocol (SOAP) is better. This is...
