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How do you access a RESTful web service? That depends on what you're trying to accomplish. If you just want to test connectivity, a terminal-based utility like curl is a great RESTful web service ...

One of the key strengths of REST is its simplicity, but that simplicity sometimes raises objections from developers who question whether such a simple approach to application integration can deal with ...

The latest trends in software development from the Computer Weekly Application Developer Network. This is a contributed piece for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Alex Walling in his ...

The heart of a modern application isn’t code anymore — it’s the APIs that let us connect that application to the rest of the world. In today’s era of distributed, componentized, service-oriented ...

The lightweight .NET web framework has arrived in a stable 1.0 release, ready to help build front ends and RESTful APIs for cloud applications. Microsoft’s opening up of .NET allowed the metaphorical ...

APIs seem to be everywhere these days. Every popular online service has one. APIs allow developers to interact with online services without actually having to point and click their way through a UI.