01 August, 2013

oData

oData is a protocol based on AtomPub and REST.OData builds on core protocols like HTTP and commonly accepted methodologies like REST. It’s designed to define the standard way of communication to a web service.


oData services are web services that expose some resources. You can access these resources via URL. OData protocol specifies how you can access data via HTTP queries. The basic idea is that you can open some URL with parameters that will execute queries against the resources. 
Currently there are lot of public OData services you can use. You can find complete list on the OData site [^]- some of them are:  

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