Basic REST Workflow

This section describes a typical REST development workflow.

The basic workflow associated with REST services

1.

Identify all of the conceptual entities that you want to expose as services.

2.

Create a URL to each resource.

3.

Categorize your resources according to their HTTP verb (or method). HTTP verbs include:

Verb	Typical use
GET	Read operations
POST	Insert and update operations
PUT	Insert and update operations
DELETE	Delete operations

Resources accessed using GET should return a representation of the resource, but not modify it.

4.

Specify the format of the response data.