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title: "What is a REST webService? how does it translate for PLM?"
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  - "software-solutions"
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REST is everywhere today. Customers and prospects don't really proactively ask for PLM to have a REST API, but when you mention it, you can tell that it sounds familiar to them and they feel it's a good positive argument. In the world of software developments there are dozens of article describing to the bit what is a REST-ful API and what I guess might be called a "REST-ish" API ? So if there is a debate in the developers worlds, then we may be far from a clear understanding of what it is in our not so techie PLM world, am I right?

## Quick say on webservices

By starting this post about REST I assumed you knew about webservices. Just to be sure and not to put too much mystery on this term, let's keep it simple. It is a service offered by a server to clients (which could be servers too) via the web ([wikipedia definition here](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_service)).

## Definition of REST

Back to basics, let's look at the definition of REST.

## Benefit for PLM
