Editing Web service (section)

===REST===
{{Main Article | REST}}
Representational State Transfer (REST) is an architecture for well-behaved Web services that can function at Internet scale.

In a 2004 document, the W3C sets following REST as a key distinguishing feature of Web services:
{{Quote | text = We can identify two major classes of Web services:
*[[REST]]-compliant Web services, in which the primary purpose of the service is to manipulate XML representations of [[Web resource]]<nowiki>s</nowiki> using a uniform set of [[Stateless protocol|stateless]] operations; and
*arbitrary Web services, in which the service may expose an arbitrary set of operations. | author = W3C | source = Web Services Architecture<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.w3.org/TR/2004/NOTE-ws-arch-20040211/#relwwwrest |title=Web Services Architecture § Relationship to the World Wide Web and REST Architectures |website=[[World Wide Web Consortium|W3C]] |access-date=11 November 2017}}</ref>|title=}}