Are Alfresco 5.2 Rest API and Alfresco Web Scripts different?

[sepgs2004]

They seem to have no relationship with one another.

Am I right?

For web scripts, I used a rest client to communicate. Even Google ARC seem to work to do lot of preliminary efforts and testing.

Can I use Google ARC client to access Alfresco Rest API? It does not appear to work. 

May be I am losing my mind.

Also, online I found some api-explorer.alfresco.com thing, where we have the try it out button.

I wish I could run this against my internal alfresco server.

[afaust]

The Public ReST API is based on the web script framework, but with significant abstractions / enhancements built on top. If you develop custom web scripts in Alfresco, you are using just the bare bones web script framework and add endpoints under a separate base URL.

Both web scripts and ReST API can be called by any ReST client, of course assuming that the web scripts you want to call are actually implemented as ReST-ful services (web scripts does not require any compliance to ReST).

You can also run API Explorer against your local Alfresco system. Simply install the API Explorer webapp on your server and you should be good to go. The project's sources can be found on GitHub and the WAR is available from Alfresco Nexus.