Demystifying RESTful Data Coupling

Compared to approaches such as Web services and the Web Services Description Language (WSDL), which promote specialization for each service interface, the uniform-interface constraint reduces client-server coupling and helps minimize gratuitous differences in interface and method semantics across disparate resources. REST isn't a silver bullet, but its flexibility and relative simplicity make it highly applicable not only to Web-scale systems but also to a wide variety of enterprise integration problems. The representational state transfer (REST) architectural style, on the other hand, makes very specific and highly useful trade-offs meticulously chosen to enhance the scalability, extensibility, manageability, and maintainability of distributed systems and applications.