A RESTful web service, is a Web Service that conforms to Representational State Transfer (REST) practices.
With regard to the Future of the Federation we want to see a full and robustly supported Rest API supported across a number of Fedwiki Server implementations.
# See also - Web Services
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Representational State Transfer (REST) is a software architecture style consisting of guidelines and best practices for creating scalable web services - wikipedia 
A REST API is an API that provides it's interface through REST. Here we list a number of services and projects that help you develop and maintain a robust REST API.
DreamFactory automatically generates a comprehensive REST API for every popular SQL database, NoSQL document store, and file storage system - html .
From my standpoint, there are two kinds of ways that data in the two-way web will flow in a distributed ecosystem that has the scale of the Internet: query-based and real-time.