In 30 Seconds: A Quick Guide to RESTful Web Services
As an alternative to SOAP, XML-RPC, etc., REST stands for Representations State Transfer, and it provides simple, platform-neutral data exchange using the HTTP transport. You’ve been hearing about it a lot from Ruby on Rails guys (as of Rails 1.2 built-in APIs exist for exposing all your models to the web with a line or two of [...]
