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Representational state transfer (also known as REST, baby) is an approach to designing loosely coupled applications that rely on named resources rather than messages. As it turns out, the most involved part of building a RESTful application is deciding on the resources you want to expose. Once you’ve done that, building RESTful Web services a snap, especially if you use the Restlet framework, which greatly simplifies the task of defining and implementing RESTful services.

Check out IBM developerWorks‘ tutorial dubbed “Build a RESTful Web service“– in it, you’ll get to know what REST is and how to build RESTful applications with Restlets, plus, you’ll see how to deploy and test them while you are at it!

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