Business Intelligence Platform RESTful Web Service
RESTful Web Services are REST architecture-based web services. Representational State Transfer (REST) is a style of software architecture which is used for distributed systems such as the World Wide Web. - Functionality and data are considered to be resources in this architectural style - Functionality and data can be accessed by using Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs), typically links on the Web. - REST has some advantages over SOAP (Simple Objects Access Protocol) but is similar in technology since it is also a function call via HTTP protocol. - REST is easier to call from various platforms - It can transfer pure human-readable data in JSON or XML and is faster and saves resources. - In the basic idea of REST, an object is accessed via REST, not its methods. - The REST access can change the state of the object which is caused by passed parameters. - A frequent application is the connection of the SAP