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But if I understand you correctly this is already a web service using REST
through the browser.
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Yes, it is a web service as I see it defined.
As for the use of REST - there are two levels that are at play here (ignoring the transport layer):
1. The browser and the HTTP server are communicating via HTTP which is RESTful.
2. Your client and your server application code are communicating using the interchange format/language/protocol you designed your application to use.
To determine if a single web service call is RESTful at the application layer is a difficult one to answer by looking at a single URI.
On one level, if it retrieves representational information about an entity or performs a state change of that entity then it could be considered RESTful. But I'm not sure it is ever as simple as that.
(On a related note - HTTPAPI is a wonderful HTTP/HTTPS client for ILE RPG development and I would recommend it without hesitation)
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