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RESTful APIs - Java Tutorial
From the course: Calling REST APIs with Java
RESTful APIs
- [Narrator] When making an API call, REST is something you should be aware of regardless of the language you're using or what API you're calling. The whole point of REST is to describe an informal set of rules that influence how resources are exposed over the web and how clients access them. These guidelines, which are loosely followed in API design, center around the concept of a resource. A resource is any object or concept a client might be interested in working with, so it's a little bit abstract. When working with resources, you'll encounter them organized individually, in a collection, or nested within other resources as a sub collection. How resources are organized is important because it influences an API design and, ultimately, how your client will call that API. Roy Fielding, the creator of REST, described its key principles in a dissertation. Those principles have guided the design of many popular APIs,…
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