REST just means, that you use common technics/protocolls such as HTML to access "your" or someone else data. That's wise, cause there are a lot of implementations of that protocolls, so it is easy to access your data from any plattform (there are restlet- implementations for Android, JEE, JSE ...) and any programming language (you may use any html- connector- library to access your resources from C++, python, javaScript, erlang, scala, php, ...).
One could say: REST is just a name for what we already are doing using HTTP. regards, Alex On 13.08.2010 07:47, sic wrote: > I hope to understand not the restlet but the concept of REST itself, sorry > for that. > > What's the meaning of the REST compared with HTTP using commonly all around > the world? > > Easily, we can already access any data via HTTP web browser and get data > from them. > > through the HTTP protocol, it is already possible to take some resources > from somewhere, which is the new main architecture of REST, so irony. > > Even though I try to read some documents and toturial related to the REST > and consider them deeply, It's so hard for me to find out the meaning of the > REST. > > Can anyone give me some advice for that whatever you know? > > regards, > sic > ------------------------------------------------------ http://restlet.tigris.org/ds/viewMessage.do?dsForumId=4447&dsMessageId=2646433
