The REST pages enable you to develop and protect ORDS (Oracle REST Data Services) based RESTful web services for your database.

To navigate to the REST pages, do either of the following:

• In the Launchpad page, select the Development tab and click REST.

• Click Selectorto display the navigation menu. Under Development, select REST.

• About RESTful Web Services
  Representational State Transfer (REST) is a style of software architecture for distributed hypermedia systems such as the World Wide Web. A service is described as RESTful when it conforms to the tenets of REST.
• RESTful Services Terminology
  
• About the Overview Page
  The Overview page provides an overview of the activity in the REST pages.
• About the AutoREST Page
  Use the Automatic Enabling of Schema Objects for REST Access (AutoREST) feature to enable REST access for database objects in the current schema.
• About the REST Search Toolbar
  This section describes the various options available on the search toolbar in the REST pages. The options selected are saved for your session.
• Creating RESTful Web Services
  Create RESTful web services using the Modules, Templates and Handlers pages.
• Securing RESTful Web Services
  Define roles, privileges and OAuth Clients to ensure authentication and authorization are required for accessing RESTful web services.