Representational State Transfer as a Web Service

Abstract

This report is a study on Representational State Transfer architectural style and its usefulness for implementing web service. This report will highlight the differences in perceiving REST as an architectural style and as a web service. This document will also discuss web services in general and highlight important differences between the different web services in programming languages. The goal of this report is to clarify the term REST as an architectural style which has proved to be a popular choice for implementing a web service rather than REST being termed as a web service and compare Web Services based on its performance in a Java Application.