Web App Network Architecture

Web App MVC Architecture

REST

• Representational State Transfer
• Application state and functionality are abstracted into resources
• Each resource may be referenced with a global identifier (URI over HTTP)
• Resources share a uniform interfaces
• Note
  • introduced in 2000 in the doctoral dissertation of Roy Fielding
  • http://www.ics.uci.edu/~fielding/pubs/dissertation/rest_arch_style.htm

REST URIs and HTTP actions

• GET http://myserver.com/topics - a list of all the topics
• GET http://myserver.com/topics/1 - the first topic
• POST http://myserver.com/topics - create a topic
• PUT http://myserver.com/topics/1 - modify the first topic
• DELETE http://myserver.com/topics/1 - delete the first topic