Patent ID: 8132113

Claim:
A client for analyzing resources of a Representational State Transfer (REST) application residing on a server, at least one of the resources supporting at least one method, the client comprising: a user interface for displaying a representation of at least one REST resource, for displaying a list of methods associated with each of the at least one REST resource, and for accepting user input specifying one of the REST resource methods; memory operative to hold a model of the REST application; and control logic in communication with the user interface and the memory, the control logic operative to automatically generate a request based on the specified method, send the request to the server, receive a response to the request from the server, and to display data received in the server response, the display including at least a raw view presenting the data in the format of the server response; wherein, if the received data includes additional REST resources, the user interface is operative to display a representation of at least one of the additional REST resources.