Think of a REST API like a waiter in a restaurant. You (an app) tell the waiter what you want (your request), and the waiter goes to the kitchen (the server) to get it for you. REST is just a set of ...

The key difference between the terms REST versus RESTful is that REST refers to a philosophy about the architecture and design of web services, while the term RESTful refers to any API that properly ...

(NOTE: When I say API here, I'm referring specifically to the interface between the two apps. It can be anything from web-service calls to dropping files in a known common location.) I'm building a ...