Introduction to OData
OData (Open Data Protocol) is an open protocol for sharing the data. It is OASIS (Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards) standard which defines best practice for building and consuming REST API. The main goal of the Open Data protocol is to any application can able to access from any other application. Nowadays many applications like Web browsers, apps on mobile devices, BI tools are required to access common data sources. The data source of every application has its own approach and style so it is very difficult to create the data source that can be accessed by all applications. Solution to this problem is to define common approaches and that all application owners agree to follow this approach for accessing the data. Currently, OData is widely used for exposing data. The applications such as Facebook and eBay are exposing their data via OData. OData is preferred to use custom enterprise applications for expose data. To do this OData librar...