Creating a REST Web Service Connection Profile

A connection profile contains the connection property information needed to connect to a REST Web service in your enterprise.

1. In Enterprise Explorer, right-click REST Web Services and select New.
2. Enter the name and optional description of the connection profile and click Next.
3. Complete the following information.

   REST Web service connection details page

   Field	Description
   Resource base URL	The common base URL referenced by the connection. typically, REST Web service connections begin with the same base URL. For example, http://www.yourcompany.com/ could serve as the common prefix for the resource base URL. A base URL must begin with http:.
   Resource URI template	A URI template used by mobile business object (MBO) create, read, update, and delete (CRUD) operations on the REST Web service resources through HTTP operations. The URI template should follow this structure: customers/{id(int)}

4. Click Next to view a summary of the connection profile, or Finish to create the connection profile.

   The connection profile displays under REST Web Service in the Enterprise Explorer.

• REST Web Services
  A REST (Representational State Transfer) Web service is a set of architectural principles by which you design Web services that focus on a system’s resources, including how resource states are addressed and transferred over HTTP by a wide range of clients written in different languages.