It's not hard to create a RESTful web service in Java. In fact, frameworks like Spring Boot, the Eclipse MicroProfile and Jakarta Enterprise Edition make the development of RESTful Java applications ...

Solr has a HTTP/JSON-based API. However, it isn’t exactly a REST API because it doesn’t really follow any of the rules for a well-defined REST interface. I whine about this sometimes.

Unlike Twitter's conventional REST API, which supports both JSON and XML, the streaming API offers only JSON output. JSON, which stands for JavaScript Object Notation, is a simple and elegant ...