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What is REST

Today I will put some detail on REST,a architecture which is just hot now a days among architect,personally I felt this is the one of the simplest architecture.Although it's not easy to implement without getting thorow understanding of it. Representational State Transfer(REST) is  architectural style for distributed hypermedia systems  . This complete architecture use few elements like Resource,URI,Verb,Representation,Component and Connector etc. Let me explain each term with detail: * what is Resource?  - The key abstraction of information in REST is a  resource. A resource can be any meaningful functional object which can be addressed and can  act upon a request * What is URI?  - The address using which resource is being addressed is URI( uniform resource identifier  ).It's having it's own structure to represent any object. It's composed of five parts called scheme, host, path, query, and fragment e.g. http://xyz.com/Resource/pageno=10#bookma...