REST: Advanced Research Topics and Practical Applications

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-ix

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2. Introduction

   • Cesare Pautasso, Erik Wilde, Rosa Alarcon

   Pages 1-5

3. REST Research

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 7-7

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   2. Communication and Capability URLs in COAST-based Decentralized Services

      • Michael M. Gorlick, Richard N. Taylor

      Pages 9-25

   3. Interoperability of Two RESTful Protocols: HTTP and CoAP

      • Myriam Leggieri, Michael Hausenblas

      Pages 27-49

   4. Enabling Real-Time Resource Oriented Architectures with REST Observers

      • Vlad Stirbu, Timo Aaltonen

      Pages 51-67

   5. Survey of Semantic Description of REST APIs

      • Ruben Verborgh, Andreas Harth, Maria Maleshkova, Steffen Stadtmüller, Thomas Steiner, Mohsen Taheriyan et al.

      Pages 69-89

   6. APIs to Affordances: A New Paradigm for Services on the Web

      • Mike Amundsen

      Pages 91-106

   7. Leveraging Linked Data to Build Hypermedia-Driven Web APIs

      • Markus Lanthaler

      Pages 107-123

   8. RestML: Modeling RESTful Web Services

      • Robson Vincius Vieira Sanchez, Ricardo Ramos de Oliveira, Renata Pontin de Mattos Fortes

      Pages 125-143

4. Practical Applications

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 145-145

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   2. A Lightweight Coordination Approach For Resource-Centric Collaborations

      • Morteza Ghandehari, Eleni Stroulia

      Pages 147-165

   3. Connecting the Dots: Using REST and Hypermedia to Publish Digital Content

      • Luis Cipriani, Luiz Rocha

      Pages 167-191

   4. In-Process REST at the BBC

      • Marcel Weiher, Craig Dowie

      Pages 193-209

5. Back Matter

   Pages 211-222

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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.

• Application Programming Interface (API)
• Deployment of Interfaces
• Distributed Algorithm
• Global Identifier
• REST Architectural Style
• RESTful Services
• Representational State Transfer Web Services
• SOA - Service-Oriented Architectures

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)

• Faculty of Informatics, University of Lugano, Lugano, Switzerland

  Cesare Pautasso

• EMC Corporation, Pleasanton, USA

  Erik Wilde

• Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Santiago, Chile

  Rosa Alarcon

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.

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