[debaserab2]

https://spring.io/understanding/HATEOAS

[dkersten]

Its worth nothing that Roy Fielding, the guy who coined the term REST, doesn't consider an API RESTful unless it implements HATEOAS. At least, that's what he said in some talk I watched sometime ago.

[SEJeff]

He doesn't consider an API restful unless it is a hypermedia api, of which HATEOAS is an excellent example of.