Chapter 4. REST Web Services in WebSphere Liberty
What Is REST?
Earlier in Chapter 1, “The Modern Web,” and again in Chapter 3, “Design,” we discussed the REST approach to building web services. REST is about creating web services around a set of constraints. By sticking to the constraints that stem from the way the web was designed and built, you can take better advantage of the existing web infrastructure. Routers, caching proxies, and web servers are all optimized to deliver web content. Delivering your services as web content through these channels enables you to take advantage of existing optimizations in these channels.
The philosophy of RESTful services construction has two parts. One part centers on exposing resources, putting them ...
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