About REST Clients

PowerBuilder .NET supports building proxy nonvisual user object (NVOs) that represent remote RESTful services, and then calling the RESTful services through the proxy objects.

At design time, a REST Client Proxy wizard and Project painter enable you to gather the inputs PowerBuilder needs to generate an NVO:

• The URI of the service at runtime.
• A standard HTTP method by which the proxy communicates with the server, such as GET, POST, PUT, or DELETE.
• The message format for exchanging data, such as XML or JSON

At run time, client applications access remote RESTful services using a network URI, and client and server communicate by sending HTTP request and response messages.