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Figure 9.3. Hypermedia approaches in this chapter. Hypermedia in JAX-RS is done through transitional links in
the HTTP headers, structural links in the message body, or customized responses using builders and slurpers.
9.1. The REST architecture
The term Representational State Transfer (REST) comes from the 2000 PhD thesis [ 1 ] by
Roy Fielding, a person with one of the all-time great resumes. [ 2 ]
1 “Architectural Styles and the Design of Network-based Software Architectures,” available online at
www.ics.uci.edu/~fielding/pubs/dissertation/top.htm .
2 Fielding is a cofounder of the Apache Software Foundation; was on the IETF working groups for the URI, HTTP,
and HTML specifications; and helped set up some of the original web servers. I place him easily in the Top Ten
of CS resumes, along with people like James Duncan Davidson (creator of the first versions of both Tomcat and
Ant; he basically owned the 90s), Sir Timothy Berners-Lee (create the web → knighthood FTW), and Haskell Curry