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Restful architectures are often used to create client/server network environments. REST, which stands for representational state transfer, is a simpler alternative to SOAP and WSDL services, but still maintains great features like platform-independence and language independence. REST services explicitly use HTTP methods when implementing their calls, therefore any good API should support the basic GET, POST, PUT, and DELETE methods. Along with knowing the HTTP methods you must understand the HTTP status codes as well.