Tuesday, December 8, 2009

HATEOAS (Hypermedia as the Engine of Application State)

HATEOAS requires that each server response must contain not only the requested data — but also control information (in the forms of specially tagged URLs) describing the next set of permitted interactions with the server .....
Craig McClanahan's post on advantages of using HATEOAS - reduced client' coding errors, avoid invalid state transitions, fine grained evolution of the api's.
Jim Webber's