- published: 14 Jul 2014
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REpresentational State Transfer (REST) is a style of software architecture for distributed systems such as the World Wide Web. REST has emerged over the past few years as a predominant Web service design model. REST has increasingly displaced other design models such as SOAP and WSDL due to its simpler style.
The term representational state transfer was introduced and defined in 2000 by Roy Fielding in his doctoral dissertation. Fielding is one of the principal authors of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) specification versions 1.0 and 1.1.
Conforming to the REST constraints is generally referred to as being "RESTful".
The REST architectural style was developed in parallel with HTTP/1.1, based on the existing design of HTTP/1.0. The largest implementation of a system conforming to the REST architectural style is the World Wide Web. REST exemplifies how the Web's architecture emerged by characterizing and constraining the macro-interactions of the four components of the Web, namely origin servers, gateways, proxies and clients, without imposing limitations on the individual participants. As such, REST essentially governs the proper behavior of participants.
Make me understand the way you control this
Every time I'm tramples by forces
That create this maze - I go insane!
Shapeless dreams flooding my mind
I can distinguish light - Beyond the chaos
But when I think I'm reaching the sky
It leaves me paralysed - disorder appears again
[Chorus:]
We live in a world
Where the pure forsaken
Dreaming lies
Have a look inside
And release what's been taken
Do you still climb the hill in silence?
The mind's simplicity is the most difficult skill to
reach
I keep on curbing myself
I thought I was stormproof
But (now) a drop overflows
My never-ending stream
Isolated for so long - let your conscience be born
Stop checking yourself
Led by intuition - I won't listen to reason
Cause now the instincts emerge
I won't restrain myself