REST: Advanced Research Topics and Practical Applications

by Cesare Pautasso, Erik Wilde, Rosa Alarcon

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781493946525
Publisher:	Springer New York
Publication date:	10/01/2016
Edition description:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2014
Pages:	222
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.02(d)

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

Introduction.- Communication and Capability URLs in COAST-based Decentralized Services.- Interoperability of two RESTful prools: 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.

Editorial Reviews

From the book reviews:

“The editors have now joined forces with Rosa Alarcon to deliver this new book that focuses on advanced research topics and practical applications of REST. … it is surely a useful resource for those involved in the development of information systems and in the conduction of research centered on the REST architectural style.” (Alessandro Berni, Computing Reviews, June, 2014)

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