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Representational state transfer (REST) is a simple and efficient architecture for delivering web services.  Transmission occurs directly over HTTP without a layer for authentication or session management.  Startech recommends the RESTful design pattern for web services that benefit from agile development and follow the Create, Read, Update, and Delete design pattern.  If these four verbs comprehensively describe the web services actions upon system nouns, the web services can be handled by RESTful design.

The systems noun are represented by URI such as http://example.com/resources/books/.  The noun and argument XML representations are passed to the URI's HTTP method depending on the desired verb: Create - POST, Read - GET, Update - PUT, Delete - DELETE.

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