HATEOAS

Hypermedia As The Engine Of Application State (HATEOAS) is a component of the REST application architecture that distinguishes it from other network application architectures. Hypermedia As The Engine Of Application State (HATEOAS) is a component of the REST application architecture that distinguishes it from other network application architectures. With HATEOAS, a client interacts with a network application whose application servers provide information dynamically through hypermedia. A REST client needs little to no prior knowledge about how to interact with an application or server beyond a generic understanding of hypermedia. By contrast, clients and servers in CORBA interact through a fixed interface shared through documentation or an interface description language (IDL).