Overview of RESTful API Description Languages RESTful (representational state transfer) API (application programming interface) DLs (description languages) are formal languages designed to …

Example A user-agent makes an HTTP request to a REST API through an entry point URL. All subsequent requests the user-agent may make are discovered inside the response to each request. …

REST (Representational State Transfer) is a software architectural style that was created to describe the design and guide the development of the architecture for the World Wide Web.

Web API Screenshot of web API documentation written by NASA A web API is an application programming interface (API) for either a web server or a web browser. As a web development …

The Web Application Description Language (WADL) is a machine-readable XML description of HTTP -based web services. [1] WADL models the resources provided by a service and the relationships …

The Restful Objects specification states that it operates at a higher-level of abstraction than other restful standards such as the JAX-RS specifications for Java platform, or the WCF specification on .NET. …

RESTful API Modeling Language (RAML) is a YAML -based language for describing static APIs (but not REST APIs). [2] It provides all the information necessary to describe APIs on the level 2 of the …

For example, Twitter's REST API allows developers to access core Twitter data and the Search API provides methods for developers to interact with Twitter Search and trends data.

Web API A Web API is a development in Web services where emphasis has been moving to simpler representational state transfer (REST) based communications. [2] Restful APIs do not require XML …

Jakarta RESTful Web Services, (JAX-RS; formerly Java API for RESTful Web Services) is a Jakarta EE API specification that provides support in creating web services according to the Representational …