Solr has a HTTP/JSON-based API. However, it isn’t exactly a REST API because it doesn’t really follow any of the rules for a well-defined REST interface. I whine about this sometimes.

RESTful web service clients come in a variety of shapes and sizes. Here are the five that every Java developer should know. Curl. Curl is a Unix-based utility that enables developers to invoke URLs ...

Instead, developers typically use an HTTP API and JSON to provide the data for apps on the web. That’s why you’ll often hear a so-called REST architecture described as RESTful —as in ...

In a previous article about important RESTful principles and how to create a beautiful RESTful API, I used the example of a web service that kept track of an ongoing, global score for an online ...

For example, with SQL-based projects alone, DreamFactory provides more than 40 different RESTful APIs. The APIs can then be used to complete an application with REST or JSON, with sample apps provided ...