What is WOA? A short Summary

    * Information in a WOA is represented in the form of resources on the network and are accessed and manipulated via the protocol specified in the URI, typically HTTP.
    * Every resource on the network can located via a globally unique address known as a Universal Resource Identifier or URI complying with RFC 3986.
    * Resources are manipulated by HTTP verbs (GET, PUT, POST, DELETE) using a technique known as Representational State Transfer or REST.
    * Manipulation of network resources is performed solely by components on the network (essentially browsers and other Web servers).
    * Access to resources must be layered and not require more than local knowledge of the network.
    * It is the responsibility of the components to understand the representations and valid state transitions of the resources they manipulate.
    * The service contract of WOA resources is implicit; it's the representation that is received.
    * WOA resources contain embedded URIs that build a larger network of granular representative state (i.e. order resources contain URLs to inventory resources).