Glossary Term:
REpresentational State Transfer

REST is a simple, stateless architecture generally running over HTTP by reading a Web page that contains a XML file. Considered easier to use than SOAP, REST is typically used in mobile applications, automated business processees and mashups, where the XML contains the data and description needed.

See Also:

REST Application Programming Interface Constrained Application Protocol

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