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RESTful services recap

RESTful services recap

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RESTful services recap

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- [Instructor] This module will talk about opening up simple RESTful endpoints within your Spring MVC application. REST is a representational state transfer, and a RESFTful web service follows an architectural style which helps us access resources on the web and return textual representations of it. We can perform action on these resources by means of simple and well-defined operations. For example, you can retrieve resources, or you can manipulate them in the form of update and delete, or you can even add more resources on the server. RESTful web services highly promote interoperability between systems. For example, if you have a REST service coded in .NET, you can easily access it with a Java client. So even if both the systems work on different platforms and run in different languages, it wouldn't matter. They can work together in harmony. Whenever a client invokes a REST service, it will do so with the stateless HTTP…

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