One issue with having so many RESTful web services APIs is that their designers simply don't have a solid grasp of RESTful principles. In this RESTful APIs tutorial, we will look at the philosophy ...

Part 2 of this four-part series on Java SE Web services showed how to use the JAX-WS API to develop SOAP-based Web services. JAX-WS also supports RESTful-based Web services, which this article ...

Understanding idempotence, and how it applies to the most commonly used HTTP methods, is an important part of effective RESTful API design.