We usually follow the MVC pattern while creating Rest API. I Often Confuse this sometimes with RPC since people tell me it should be in Http format and Making a CRUD operation from Spring boot does not make it Rest API. So, I want to know whether RPC is similar to Rest API or not?
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REST
Representational state transfer (REST) is a software architectural style that was created to guide the design and development of the architecture for the World Wide Web. REST defines a set of constraints for how the architecture of an Internet-scale distributed hypermedia system, such as the Web, should behave.
REST is defined by resources that encapsulate entities.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representational_state_transfer
RPC
In distributed computing, a remote procedure call (RPC) is when a computer program causes a procedure (subroutine) to execute in a different address space (commonly on another computer on a shared network), which is coded as if it were a normal (local) procedure call, without the programmer explicitly coding the details for the remote interaction.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote_procedure_call
Difference
With REST every resource has an address (URL) and a representation (for example JSON) and the resources are accessed using HTTP verbs (GET, POST, PUT etc).
In RPC you want to call a procedure/method. A typical protocol will be SOAP where you always use POST requests with a XML protocol with a header and body.
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