<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/9dd97394-3325-414d-86cf-e9fd69645922/DBB57D40-1C2B-4B68-A2EA-99F2AC1D8097/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Representational_State_Transfer&oldid=285864427" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Representational_State_Transfer&oldid=285864427" style="font-size: 11px;">en.wikipedia.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Representational_State_Transfer&oldid=285864427"><P><B>Representational state transfer</B> (<B>REST</B>) is a style of <A title="Software architecture" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_architecture">software architecture</A> for distributed <A title="Hypermedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypermedia">hypermedia</A> systems such as the <A title="World Wide Web" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Wide_Web">World Wide Web</A>. As such, it is not strictly a method for building "<A class="mw-redirect" title="Web services" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_services">web services</A>." The terms "representational state transfer" and "REST" were introduced in 2000 in the doctoral dissertation of <A title="Roy Fielding" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Fielding">Roy Fielding</A>,<SUP class="reference" id="cite_ref-0"><A title="" href="#cite_note-0"><SPAN>[</SPAN>1<SPAN>]</SPAN></A></SUP> one of the principal authors of the <A title="Hypertext Transfer Protocol" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypertext_Transfer_Protocol">Hypertext Transfer Protocol</A> (HTTP) specification.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/DBB57D40-1C2B-4B68-A2EA-99F2AC1D8097/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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