Hello, As far as I know the REST (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representational_State_Transfer) concept was first formalised by Roy Fielding (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Fielding). You could say that HTTP is built using the REST concepts and style (although it is a bit chicken and egg of course http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_or_the_egg).
I suppose it is about receiving/transferring/altering 'things' (the State?) by using an agreed set of operations (eg, POST, PUT, GET), the effects of which are stated in advance, on a well defined set of URIs. Of course, it's probably way more complex but I think from a RESTLet point of view that's the easiest way to describe it. Cheers, Ian (ducks while preparing for the REST purist backlash!) Ian Dunlop myGrid team School of Computer Science University of Manchester On 13 Aug 2010, at 06:47, 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 > -- > View this message in context: > http://restlet-discuss.1400322.n2.nabble.com/concept-of-REST-and-HTTP-itself-tp5418942p5418942.html > Sent from the Restlet Discuss mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > ------------------------------------------------------ > http://restlet.tigris.org/ds/viewMessage.do?dsForumId=4447&dsMessageId=2646260 ------------------------------------------------------ http://restlet.tigris.org/ds/viewMessage.do?dsForumId=4447&dsMessageId=2646376
