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Blogged date : 2005 Apr 06
My latest XML.com column is up, Constructing or Traversing URIs.
"REST is defined by four interface constraints: identification of resources; manipulation of resources through representations; self-descriptive messages; and, hypermedia as the engine of application state." [Roy Fielding]
Of the four interface constraints of REST, the last one, `hypermedia as the engine of application state`, is the least utilitzed. This article builds the concept from the ground up, and then applies it to the design of our Bookmark Web Service.