Ever read about the REST architecture?

I just love how things gets lot’s of attraction just because someone naming it and calls it a or architectural style. look at Ajax for example that in less than 12 months developed from a marginal solution used by individual programmers into something the big dragons are investing millions in, it’s not even an acronym anymore and should be spelled Ajax not AJAX.

Another well known architectur is the web. You point the browser to an URL and gets an HTML-tagged page back. The page contains new links which you can point your browser to, and here we are: The REST architecture. One of the best and accessible articles for newbiews is written by Roger L. Costello on the website www.xfront.com:

The Classic REST System
The Web is a REST system! Many of those Web services that you have been using these many years - book-ordering services, search services, online dictionary services, etc - are REST-based Web services. Alas, you have been using REST, building REST services and you didn’t even know it.

REST is concerned with the “big picture” of the Web. It does not deal with implementation details (e.g., using Java servlets or CGI to implement a Web service). So let’s look at an example of creating a Web service from the REST “big picture” perspective.

Above is just a text-sample from the whole article that describes REST.