There is a thing called JSON-RPC: http://www.jsonrpc.org/specification http://www.jsonrpc.org/specification The author explicitly mentions it as something he p

There is a thing called JSON-RPC: http://www.jsonrpc.org/specification http://www.jsonrpc.org/specification The author explicitly mentions it as something he prefers over REST (though he spends more time on XML-RPC)