REST is developer-friendly because its simpler style makes it easier to implement and use than SOAP. REST is less verbose, and less volume of data is sent when communicating between two endpoints.

As APIs continue to proliferate, so do their types: REST, SOAP, GraphQL, Kafka-based APIs, Publish/Subscribe Pattern-Based APIs, Remote Procedure Call protocols and Webhooks, among them.

Good RPC APIs I've used are stateless, non-remote APIs are not. RMI is a joke. And you tend to use primitive objects instead of complex objects as parameters/return types.

Are There Any Alternatives to REST APIs? Before REST APIs, there was Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) APIs, which allowed systems “written in any language” to communicate with each other ...

In the meantime, the not-really-RESTful Web APIs have taken over the web. In the ProgrammableWeb index there are currently 12,199 APIs and counting, with over 6,000 being categorized as “RESTful”.

Newton explained that RESTful APIs are application programming interfaces that conform to the REST architectural style of software development. “For example, Opto 22’s RESTful API defines exactly how ...

The effective application of RESTful techniques One of the key strengths of REST is its simplicity, but that simplicity sometimes raises objections from developers who question whether such a simple ...

It's not hard to create a RESTful web service in Java. In fact, frameworks like Spring Boot, the Eclipse MicroProfile and Jakarta Enterprise Edition make the development of RESTful Java applications ...