Difference between REST and RESTfull services

 

REST based Services/Architecture vs. RESTFUL Services/Architecture

To differentiate or compare these 2, you should know what REST is.

REST (REpresentational State Transfer) is basically an architectural style of development having some principles:

• It should be stateless

• It should access all the resources from the server using only URI

• It does not have inbuilt encryption

• It does not have session

• It uses one and only one protocol - HTTP

• For performing CRUD operations, it should use HTTP verbs such as get, post, put and delete

• It should return the result only in the form of JSON or XML, atom, OData etc. (lightweight data )

REST based services follow some of the above principles and not all

RESTFUL services means it follows all the above principles.

It is similar to the concept of:

Object oriented languages support all the OOP concepts, examples: C++, C#

Object-based languages support some of the OOP features, examples: JavaScript, VB

Source : https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1568834/whats-the-difference-between-rest-restful