Interoperability

• The key to interoperability is standardization. The reason why independent resources on the Web are able to interoperate today is because the Web has standardized on:

  • Addressing and naming resources -> URI
  • Generic resource interface -> HTTP GET, POST, PUT, DELETE
  • Resource representations -> HTML, XML, GIF, JPEG, etc
  • Media types -> MIME types (text/html, text/plain, etc)

• These are the standards that REST advocates.

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