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It's down to utility.

It turns out that using JSON is easy, has good support and is relatively compact on the wire.

It also turns out that using HTTP verbs and transferring the entire state of an object makes development easier.

And equally, for 99% of use cases, it turns out that HATEOAS is nice but not necessary.




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