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Anybody following the discussions around “Web Services” in recent years is aware of the fuzzy definition of the term, and a little bit of history can quite easily explain some of the confusions around current terminology (or use of terminology). The general idea of using Web technologies to not only deliver Web pages (HTML documents) between HTTP clients and servers appeared probably more than 10 years ago, when it became clear that the Web and its technical foundations of URIs, HTTP, and HTML were becoming a very widely deployed information delivery and service platform.
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A similar but more refined classification of HTTP-based APIs was developed by Jan Algermissen in http://nordsc.com/ext/classification_of_http_based_apis.html. In particular, he adds the facet of whether self-describing messages are being used, in the sense that they have to be explicitly labeled with a media type.
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Pautasso, C., Wilde, E. (2011). Introduction. In: Wilde, E., Pautasso, C. (eds) REST: From Research to Practice. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-8303-9_0
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