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What I like best about REST is its simplicity, flexibility, and ease of integration. It uses standard HTTP methods and makes communication between different applications straightforward. REST APIs are easy to understand, develop, test, and maintain, while also working well with different programming languages and platforms. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

One thing I dislike about REST is that it can become difficult to manage when an application has many endpoints and complex requirements. Maintaining consistent API structures, authentication, versioning, and documentation can also require extra effort, especially as the project grows and becomes more complicated. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like a lot that you can represent almost every structure in the world with REST, also that their knowledge is widespread around the dev world this makes it easy to integrate it in a project with an increasing team size Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sadly besides being understood by a lot of people, sometimes people don't understand the stateless part of it, or the logic of resources, so this makes the pattern difficult to follow Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

As I am using REST with the python, I am liking below features most.

- We can use REST with different languages so that we can manage multiple services of same or different languages in one application.

- We can also invoke the REST API internally from one microservice to another.

- We can also use REST with HTTPS and OAuth mechanism for security

- As REST doesn't maintain client state, We can simplify server logic Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Using the REST API We are not able to show real time communication and analytics as It requires http call Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

REST is great for making concise URL endpoints to query a database backend. It's useful for making dynamic web apps. It is an ideal choice for developing cross platform APIs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Can sometimes be difficult choosing which stack to program with. Must always take security considerations in to mind when developing REST API endpoints. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

-Easy to implement using Jax-Rs or Jersey.

-Documentation of APIs is easy to do

-Easy to learn and integrate with any third party system.

-Faster than SOAP APIs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

-not easy to main state , especially within session.

- we can have maximum 1000 records for each request.

-Error reporting in Rest in not easy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I have been using REST APIs for a long time in my career and I like the way it works. In my projects, I have used this to deliver expected data via endpoints to my analytical tool and it is working as expected. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

As of now, there are no problems with REST as in most cases it works very well. But yes, we can work on the scalability of REST. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

While I was using SOAP before I was introduced to REST web services. It's very easy to use this service to get and post the data to the server. The most important thing is that we just need to use the URL of the exposed REST service to interact with our database. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The downside of this REST service that I think is that it's not tracking which user hit the request for the data. It just needs the URL to interact with the API service. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I have used REST web services in Outsystems and for using a rest web service we do not require any external system to get and post the data. We can simply consume the API using REST. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I am not sure about the dislike yet I haven't seen any but I have a question if there is any change in the REST API then do we need to refresh where we are consuming those API using REST or it will auto refresh. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The server and the client act independently of one another as long as the interface stays the same when processing a request and a response. The server exposes the REST API, and the client makes use of it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Needs some more features as compared to its alternative tool "Postman offers a web version as well as a desktop app". They need to inherit features like this. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I have used your REST service and really like it. As g2 API returns 25 reviews per request. You can get all reviews from a single place by using the offset parameter and many more. But It's completely fine. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response time could be faster! Otherwise it works very well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.