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Representational State Transfer, from now on called REST, is actually not really a protocol, but more of merely a style of communication. Great advantages of having no protocol are simplicity, visibility and performance. A disadvantage is that the communication is not strictly defined, and therefore needs to be documented in a sufficient way. There is an attempt to standardize this communication, called Web Application Description Language (WADL), but it is not widely adopted.
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