The key difference between the terms REST versus RESTful is that REST refers to a philosophy about the architecture and design of web services, while the term RESTful refers to any API that properly ...

Learn how to create RESTful-based Web services Part 2 of this four-part series on Java SE Web services showed how to use the JAX-WS API to develop SOAP-based Web services.

Implementing the RESTful WCF Service When working with WCF, you first need to create a service contract and then define the service operations or operation contracts in it.