The S in REST18 August 2014 REST is a vast improvement over complex things like SOAP and CORBA, but I think we still have a way to go before we’ve reached simple. REST is an acronym for REpresentational State Transfer, and I think the “state” part of that acronym gives rise to a lot of incidental complexity as systems grow. You can think of state as a combination of value and time, and in the RESTful case, the
