| 8 | | Restful web service is a light weight remote procedure call (rpc) interface. |
| | 8 | Restful web service is a light weight remote procedure call (rpc) interface, using a client-server architecture. |
| | 9 | The server provides a number of methods that can be called by the client. |
| | 10 | Therefor client and server are connected via TCP using HTTP as message protocol. |
| | 11 | Methods are identified by an URI in the HTTP header. |
| | 12 | The payload of a message, the returned value of a method, is encoded in XML. |
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| | 14 | A detailed description of RESTful web service can be found at : [http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representational_State_Transfer], [http://www.oio.de/public/xml/rest-webservices.htm] |
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