Just came across this term HATEOAS , which some of my team members were using in describing what we did in our previous project wrt to REST. My Last project was about building an e-commerce platform for one of the largest book publisher and distributor in Latin America.As part of that project we had thought to use the LEVEL-3 for rest communication which is using REST as a hypermedia controls. You can read about different levels of REST at this Martin Fowler’s Blog . When we said we wanted to use REST as hypermedia controls , the main idea behind this was to be able to navigate the result of a REST call. For Example if there is a product catalogue call which looks like GET /products/123456 So It would return As you can see that apart from the the properties of the product 123456 it also has a links array. This links array contains the the link description in rel and the location of that document. so essentially what i could do is parse the JSON response , and then look for wha...