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>I don't think any 'majority' even cares about REST let alone know it exists.Download Postman Rest Client For Chrome
Obviously, as its a technical term, 'majority' here refers to the majority of the respective technical audience, not the majority across all people.
>I also don't see jargon as something that may or may not 'catch on', I see it as a way to organize ideas in a professional area so as to ease precise communication.
The best way to 'ease precise communication' though is to use a term as it turned out to be used/understood by most people -- not to insist of its initial intended meaning (which in IT could be off by several decades to its modern use).
Windows client for mac. >This all can be avoided if people make it as a rule not to reuse names for a new concept Y that is already being used for concept X. What do you see as the reason to reuse names? Do you think we're running out of them?
The thing is, REST initially was some random thing some guy wrote. A person totally irrelevant in the grand scheme of things, not some standards body.
REST became a thing and got relevant only after it was adopted by a critical mass, and in the process people used it in different ways, adopted what they liked, etc. Those changes due to impact with real and different uses, reflect into what people call 'REST' today.
Once we called 'computers' actual humans doing computations [1]. Then it was some huge machines in corporations. Now we can even call our phones that. It would silly to insist that we should keep computers to its meaning at any fixed point in time.
[1] https://muse.jhu.edu/login?auth=0&type=summary&url=/journals..
Install Postman On Mac
Postman is a REST client that started off as a Chrome browser plugin but recently came out with native versions for both Mac and Windows. Postman supports every HTTP method you can think of including some you might not even know about. Let's install Postman in your machine and open it after installation is completed. It is very easy to use, just open Postman and log in with your Google account. Now Postman is ready to test your REST API.
Let's see the following screenshot about Postman testing a REST API:
The preceding screenshot is about Postman. Here I have tested a RESTful web service to create ..