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Representational state transfer

Representational State Transfer ( REST ) is a style of software architecture for distributed systems such as the World Wide Web . REST has emerged as a predominant web API design model. The term representational state transfer was introduced and defined in 2000 by Roy Fielding in his doctoral dissertation. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Fielding is one of the principal authors of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) specification versions 1.0 and 1.1. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ edit ] About