Why do so many APIs boast about being RESTful?
- by John Hoffman
I have noticed that many APIs I have encountered such as Facebook's old API and Skydrive's API boast about being RESTful.
Hence, I looked up what REST means on Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representational_state_transfer), but I don't understand why do APIs boast about being RESTful.
Doesn't RESTful just mean that an API works via…