REST: Advanced Research Topics and Practical Applications

This book offers a deep, principle-based examination of Representational State Transfer (REST), its applications and limitations as an architectural style. Covers design and deployment of RESTful systems from Web applications to enterprise environments.

This book serves as a starting point for people looking for a deeper principled understanding of REST, its applications, its limitations, and current research work in the area and as an architectural style. The authors focus on applying REST beyond Web applications (i.e., in enterprise environments), and in reusing established and well-understood design patterns. The book examines how RESTful systems can be designed and deployed, and what the results are in terms of benefits and challenges encountered in the process. This book is intended for information and service architects and designers who are interested in learning about REST, how it is applied, and how it is being advanced.

Discuses novel application scenarios for REST, highlighting results and challenges encountered in concrete projects Examines a more advanced approach for those who want to understand the ongoing research activities around advancing and extending REST Presents actual applications and real-world concerns Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Autorentext
Cesare Pautasso is an assistant professor at USI Lugano, Switzerland. Erik Wilde is a research scientist at EMC Intelligent Information Group. Rosa Alarcon is an assistant professor at Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile.

Inhalt
Introduction.- Communication and Capability URLs in COAST-based Decentralized Services.- Interoperability of two RESTful protocols: HTTP and CoAP.- Enabling Real-Time Resource Oriented Architectures with REST Observers.- Survey of Semantic Description of REST APIs.- APIs to A ordances: A New Paradigm for Services on the Web.- Leveraging Linked Data to Build Hypermedia-Driven Web APIs.- RestML: Modeling RESTful Web Services.- A Lightweight Coordination Approach For Resource-Centric Collaborations.- Connecting the Dots: Using REST and Hypermedia to publish Digital Content.- In-Process REST at the BBC.