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==Introduction==
REST is both a style of software architecture and a protocol for representing services as "resources" that are accessed over the ubiquitous HTTP infrastructure. REST is an acronym for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representational_State_Transfer|Representational State Transfer]. It is gaining favor as a less-cumbersome means of distributing application behavior in [AJAX] style web applications and [Mashups] and has seen large scale adoption in the [http://rubyonrails.org|Rails] community. It is often viewed as a counterpoint to the RPC or document style services enabled by WSDL and WCF.
With REST, every piece of information has its own URL, http://www.rest.com/file/hello/test/bar/ (WWW is best example of a RESTful design).

===Resources===
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representational_State_Transfer|Wikipedia Article on REST]{BR}
[http://www.ics.uci.edu/~fielding/pubs/dissertation/rest_arch_style.htm|Roy Fielding's Dissertaion]

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