Despite REST's position as the de facto standard in web services development, it's not without some shortcomings. Data exchange formats can be bloated, and it lacks standards for API documentation and ...

Open source projects are emerging to further software development practices based on RESTful APIs, which are becoming more instrumental in providing app back-end services and other functionality. To ...

There is no sanctioning body or open source linter that can verify if a RESTful API conforms and complies with all applicable REST API naming conventions and best practices. However, REST API ...

Clearly, REST (Representational State Transfer) is winning the web service protocol debate. What was once a grass-roots movement has proliferated inside the enterprise and out. As of January 2010, ...

Microsoft has announced the public preview of the Exchange Online Admin API, a modern REST API that gives IT teams scalable, service-account–friendly control over mailbox and recipient management. The ...

Take advantage of these best practices to ensure that changes to your API don’t break compatibility with current clients. Representational State Transfer, commonly known as REST, is an architectural ...

For developers who want to expose their Web applications to other computers and Internet services, API platform vendor Apigee is offering a free online tool to help create APIs using the increasingly ...

Clearly, REST (Representational State Transfer) is winning the web service protocol debate. What was once a grass-roots movement has proliferated inside the enterprise and out. As of January 2010, ...