BUILDING a RESTful Web Services in Oracle APEX
❓What is a Web Service? A web service is a mechanism for sending and receiving data between two different systems over a network, commonly using HTTP. There are two main kinds of web services: RESTful : A lightweight, fast architectural style using HTTP verbs such as GET, POST, PUT, DELETE, typically exchanging JSON or XML SOAP : An older and more formal standard-based web-service architecture, built on XML and often more complex in setup. *Tip: In the context of Oracle APEX we typically work with RESTful web services. ❓ API or REST Web Service? In everyday conversation, people sometimes use the terms API and REST web service interchangeably, but technically, every REST Web Service is an API,but not every API is REST Web Service. For example, a SOAP API or gRPC service uses a different architecture and may not revolve around HTTP or resources. they are not the same : API (Application Programming Interface) : A broad concept referring to a set of rule...