Alright, so now that my blog is online and I have been reading through Sam Ruby’s for quite some time I decided to do a little investigating on REST. Sam mentions this quite a bit, so I was curious as to exactly what REST is.
So, long and short of it is – REST is a way to describe an application through a Web interface. Rather than say here’s how we edit something REST says – To edit we use a GET verb, followed by a POST verb, with the item’s ID number specified.
To start your learning, the RESTWiki is a good point to start with. However, what brought it all together for me was Joe Gregorio’s RESTLog application. His explanation of the interface was really what put it all into perspective for me.
One of the interesting points of REST is the fact that the underlying technologies could change without changing the way the rest of the world interfaces with it.
So, does this mean that Taos Community Tools will be a REST application? I’m not sure yet, Hedwig may be a REST application, at least on some levels.
