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+title:      "HAL / HATEOAS"
+ring:       trial
+quadrant:   methods-and-patterns
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+We still recommend the usage of HAL and HATEOAS.
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+But, depending on the resource structure, there are some pitfalls to be aware of:
+- Increased amount of HTTP calls
+- Parallelization of client-side calls is more difficult or even impossible when following links on heavily nested resource structures
+- Consumer side code might get larger