What is the different between RESTful and RESTless

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What is basic difference between restful and restless  i ve been reading a few articles people seem to use them interchangeably

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RESTless  is a term not often used    You can define  RESTless  as any system that is not RESTful  For that it is enough to not have one characteristic that is required for a RESTful system   Most systems are RESTless by this definition because they don t implement HATEOAS

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Any model which don t identify resource and the action associated with is restless  restless is not any term but a slang term to represent all other services that doesn t abide with the above definition    In restful model resource is identified by URL  NOUN  and the actions VERBS  by the predefined methods  in HTTP protocols i e  GET  POST  PUT  DELETE etc

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REST stands for REpresentational State Transfer and goes a little something like this   We have a bunch of uniquely addressable  entities  that we want made available via a web application   Those entities each have some identifier and can be accessed in various formats  REST defines a bunch of stuff about what GET  POST  etc mean for these purposes   the basic idea with REST is that you can attach a bunch of  renderers  to different entities so that they can be available in different formats easily using the same HTTP verbs and url formats    For more clarification on what RESTful means and how it is used google rails  Rails is a RESTful framework so there s loads of good information available in its docs and associated blog posts  Worth a read even if you arent keen to use the framework  For example  http   www sitepoint com restful-rails-part-i   RESTless means not restful  If you have a web app that does not adhere to RESTful principles then it is not RESTful

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Here are summarized the key differences between RESTful and RESTless web services  1  Protocol  RESTful services use REST architectural style  RESTless services use SOAP protocol   2  Business logic   Functionality  RESTful services use URL to expose business logic  RESTless services use the service interface to expose business logic   3  Security  RESTful inherits security from the underlying transport protocols  RESTless defines its own security layer  thus it is considered as more secure   4  Data format  RESTful supports various data formats such as HTML  JSON  text  etc  RESTless supports XML format   5  Flexibility  RESTful is easier and flexible  RESTless is not as easy and flexible   6  Bandwidth  RESTful services consume less bandwidth and resource  RESTless services consume more bandwidth and resources

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