Supun Athukorala

This information came to my knowledge when I was implementing a REST service for my company. A REST client enters a REST application through a simple fixed  URL .  All future actions the client may take are discovered within  resource  representations returned from the server. The  media types  used for these representations, and the  link relations  they may contain, are standardized. The client transitions through application states by selecting from the links within a representation or by manipulating the representation in other ways afforded by its media type. In this way, RESTful interaction is driven by hypermedia, rather than out-of-band information. reference -  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HATEOAS To learn HATEOAS, https://spring.io/understanding/HATEOAS https://www.baeldung.com/spring-hateoas-tutorial