"The same way AJAX is not about XML, REST for me is not about "representational state transfer", but just about using URLs to request operations from server."

"The same way AJAX is not about XML, REST for me is not about "representational state transfer", but just about using URLs to request operations from server." To be fair, that's kind of like saying AJAX isn't about asynchronous requests. Fielding doesn't agree with you. But that's your interpretation, and that's fine I guess. The point with Hypermedia APIs however is the "representational state transfer" via defined relationships between the resources.