6 Enabling Data Exchange with RESTful Services

RESTful Services enable the declarative specification of RESTful services used to access the database.

These services work with the Oracle REST Data Services (formerly known as Oracle Application Express Listener) to enable the consumption of these services. This section describes how to create, edit and delete RESTful Services.

• What Is REST?
  Representational State Transfer (REST) is a style of software architecture for distributed hypermedia systems such as the World Wide Web.
• About RESTful Services
  RESTful Services enable an application to publish Web services that are accessed by other applications to exchange data.
• RESTful Service Requirements
  You must have Oracle REST Data Services release 2.0 or later as your web listener and enabled RESTful Services either at the workspace or instance-level by an administrator.
• Accessing RESTful Services
  Learn how to access RESTful Services.
• How to Create the RESTful Service Module Example
  Learn how to create the RESTful service module example.
• Managing RESTful Service Modules
  A RESTful Service Module is a grouping of common templates, known as resource templates, under a common Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) prefix.
• Managing Resource Templates
  Resource templates are a means of grouping URIs and associating them with a particular RESTful Service Module.
• Managing Resource Handlers
  A resource handler is a query or an anonymous PL/SQL block responsible for handling a particular HTTP method.