Think of a REST API like a waiter in a restaurant. You (an app) tell the waiter what you want (your request), and the waiter goes to the kitchen (the server) to get it for you. REST is just a set of ...
Finally, in this context, I would like to know whether it would be worth to consider a RESTful API and a full blown JAX-RS framework (such as Jersey or RESTEasy) for the back-end or whether it would ...