Representational State Transfer is an architectural style that sets certain limitations for designing and BUILDING large-scale distributed systems. As an architectural style, REST has very broad utility. The designs of both HTTP 1.1 & URIs follow RESTful principles. The World Wide Web is no doubt the largest and best-known REST applications. MANY other web SERVICES ALSO follow the REST architecture, LIKE OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect 1.0. ForgeRock Common REST (CREST) applies RESTful principles to define common verbs for HTTP-based APIs that access web resources and collects resources.

Representational State Transfer is an architectural style that sets certain limitations for designing and building large-scale distributed systems. As an architectural style, REST has very broad utility. The designs of both HTTP 1.1 & URIs follow RESTful principles. The World Wide Web is no doubt the largest and best-known REST applications. Many other web services also follow the REST architecture, like OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect 1.0. ForgeRock Common REST (CREST) applies RESTful principles to define common verbs for HTTP-based APIs that access web resources and collects resources.