Resource-oriented architecture
Appearance
Resource Oriented Architecture (or, ROA) is the architecture of the [1] web. Based on the seminal concept known as [2] REST, or Representational State Transfer, this architecture proposes that the central abstraction on the web is a resource.
The first published notion of Resource Oriented Architecture seem to have been the blog entry, posted on August 8, 2006 ([3] Replacing Service Oriented Architecture with Resource Oriented Architecture).