Representational State Transfer (REST) is a client-server architectural style of building applications that leverages the fundamental properties of HTTP to manage objects accessible at a URL. REST architecture and applications are stateless, which means that no client context information is stored between requests. Each request contains all the information necessary to service the request. REST web services are lightweight, HTTP-based, easy to create and use, and have the desirable property of relating the classes of data to each other using hyperlinks. REST web services provide a simple yet powerful mechanism to interact with data. Using these web services, integration developers can configure the product and can make it communicate through the REST interface. They can use REST web services directly to send HTTP requests to the server for the resources they want to manipulate.
CA SOI lets you expose CA SOI data over REST web services. Because of the inherent standards in the REST architecture, CA SOI REST web services make the CA SOI data accessible to many different development environments. Several resources such as CA SOI user interfaces and third-party interfaces can then consume the exposed data. This ability helps integration developers extend the CA SOI solution by integrating its data with other products through REST web services. These interfaces provide an HTTP-based integration point to the CA SOI data, allowing read or write access. Using these web services, you can access the CA SOI data directly from a browser or can integrate it into your own applications. You can use these web services with any language that understands how to manage HTTP integration.
This section provides an overview of available CA SOI REST web services, supported REST HTTP methods, and requirements common to all REST web services. For complete REST web services information, see the Web Services Reference Guide.
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Available CA SOI REST Web Services
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