Kickstarting WebServices with REST

Here is an another nice tutorial for web services in Java. This time, the protocol used is REST, so we get RESTful services. There is a how-to to create server application for webservice. The build system is Maven.

TODO - to be tested!

Stateless and stateful protocols

A stateless protocol is a communications protocol that treats each request as an independent transaction that is unrelated to any previous request so that the communication consists of independent pairs of requests and responses. A stateless protocol does not require the server to retain session information or status about each communications partner for the duration of multiple requests. In contrast, a protocol which requires the keeping of internal state is known as a stateful protocol.


Examples of statefull and stateless protocols