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REST : Advanced Research Topics and Practical Applications.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextPublisher: New York, NY : Springer, 2013Copyright date: ©2014Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (219 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781461492993
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 720.1
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Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Contributors -- Editorial Board -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- 1.1 REST Design Constraints -- 1.2 REST Activities and this Book -- 1.2.1 REST Research -- 1.2.2 Practical Applications -- Part I REST Research -- Chapter 2 Communication and Capability URLs in COAST-based Decentralized Services -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Decentralized Systems via Computation Exchange -- 2.3 The COAST Architectural Style -- 2.4 Capability URLs in Detail -- 2.5 Motile/Island: A Reference Infrastructure -- 2.6 Related Work -- 2.7 Conclusion and Future Work -- Chapter 3 Interoperability of Two RESTful Protocols: HTTP and CoAP -- 3.1 The Internet of Things (IoT) -- 3.2 Embedded Devices -- 3.3 Architectural Design for Constrained Environment -- 3.3.1 Reliability and Resiliency to Heterogeneity -- 3.3.2 Asynchronous Reliable Messaging -- 3.3.3 Data Representation Modeling -- 3.3.4 Loose Coupling -- 3.3.5 Driving the Application State for Resource Discovery -- 3.3.6 Secured Communication -- 3.4 Discussion -- 3.5 Scenario: CoAP and HTTP Heterogeneous Network -- 3.6 Conclusion -- Chapter 4 Enabling Real-Time Resource Oriented Architectures with REST Observers -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Motivation and Related Work -- 4.2.1 Web Syndication and Search Engines -- 4.2.2 Server-to-Server Change Propagation -- 4.2.3 Server-to-Client Change Propagation -- 4.2.4 Summary -- 4.3 The REST Observer Architecture Pattern -- 4.4 The Web-Based Realization of REST Observer -- 4.4.1 The Resource of Interest -- 4.4.2 The Observer Resource -- 4.4.2.1 Notification Delivery -- 4.4.2.2 Inline Delivery -- 4.4.2.3 External Delivery -- 4.4.3 Notification Semantics -- 4.4.3.1 Updating or Editing -- 4.4.3.2 Deletion -- 4.4.3.3 Creation -- 4.4.4 Interaction -- 4.5 Implementation Experience -- 4.5.1 The Prototype Environment -- 4.5.2 Resources and Representations.
4.5.3 Notifications Mechanics -- 4.6 Discussion -- 4.6.1 On the RESTfulness of the REST Observer Pattern -- 4.6.2 On the Implementation of the Uniform Interface -- 4.6.3 Observation Granularity and Filtering -- 4.6.4 Example Deployments -- 4.7 Conclusions and Future Work -- Chapter 5 Survey of Semantic Description of REST APIs -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Lightweight Semantic Descriptions -- 5.2.1 Syntactic REST API Descriptions -- 5.2.2 MicroWSMO/SA-REST -- 5.2.3 Minimal Service Model -- 5.2.4 Further Semantic Approaches -- 5.3 SPARQL-Based Descriptions -- 5.4 Logic-Based Descriptions -- 5.4.1 RESTdesc -- 5.5 JSON-Based Descriptions -- 5.5.1 SEREDASj -- 5.6 Tools -- 5.6.1 Karma -- 5.6.2 SWEET -- 5.7 Open Problems and Future Work -- 5.7.1 Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) -- 5.7.2 Authentication -- 5.7.3 CORS and Authentication in API Descriptions -- 5.8 Conclusion -- Chapter 6 APIs to Affordances: A New Paradigm for Services on the Web -- 6.1 Background -- 6.1.1 More Devices -- 6.1.2 The À̀pp Economy'' -- 6.1.3 More Services -- 6.1.4 Summary -- 6.2 The Problem -- 6.2.1 Technical Difficulties -- 6.2.1.1 Treating HTTP as a Transport -- 6.2.1.2 Loss of Connector-Component Model -- 6.2.2 Competing Priorities -- 6.2.2.1 Immediate Usability -- 6.2.2.2 Long-Term Evolvability -- 6.2.3 The Time Dimension -- 6.2.3.1 REST Resources Over Time -- 6.2.3.2 Static Contracts -- 6.2.3.3 Transient Devices, Persistent Networks -- 6.3 Other Disciplines -- 6.3.1 Architecture -- 6.3.2 Visual Perception -- 6.3.3 Industrial Design -- 6.3.4 Cross-Cultural Mono-Myth -- 6.3.5 The Map is not the Territory -- 6.3.6 Summary -- 6.4 An Affordance Paradigm -- 6.4.1 Affordance-Rich Messages (ARMs) -- 6.4.2 Programming the Network -- 6.4.3 A Working Model -- 6.4.3.1 An ARM Network -- 6.4.3.2 ARM-Capable Devices -- 6.4.3.3 ARM Design Model -- 6.4.3.4 ARM Evaluation Model.
6.5 Related Work -- 6.5.1 Web Intents -- 6.5.2 ql.io -- 6.5.3 Hypertext Application Language (HAL) -- 6.6 Conclusion -- Chapter 7 Leveraging Linked Data to Build Hypermedia-Driven Web APIs -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Hypermedia-Driven Web APIs: Challengesand Best Practices -- 7.3 Linked Data and JSON-LD -- 7.4 Hydra: A Lightweight Vocabulary for Hypermedia-Driven Web APIs -- 7.5 Design Guidelines -- 7.6 Adding Hydra Support to Web Frameworks -- 7.6.1 Case Study: Issue Tracker -- 7.7 Conclusions and Outlook -- Chapter 8 RestML: Modeling RESTful Web Services -- 8.1 Service Oriented Computing -- 8.2 Model Driven Development -- 8.3 Related Work -- 8.4 RestML -- 8.4.1 UML Profile -- 8.4.2 Modeling RESTful Web Services -- 8.4.3 RESTful Web Services in JavaEE Platform -- 8.4.4 MDA Approach -- 8.4.5 Case Study: AgendaWS -- 8.4.6 The Domain Models (CIM) -- 8.4.6.1 Use Cases -- 8.4.6.2 Use Case Diagrams -- 8.4.6.3 Activity Diagram -- 8.4.7 Platform Independent Models (PIM) -- 8.4.7.1 Class Diagram -- 8.4.7.2 Sequence Diagram -- 8.4.8 Platform Specific Model (PSM) -- 8.4.9 Source-Code -- 8.4.10 Packaging and Deployment -- 8.5 Final Remarks -- Part II Practical Applications -- Chapter 9 A Lightweight Coordination Approach for Resource-Centric Collaborations -- 9.1 Introduction -- 9.2 Related Work -- 9.3 The Collaboration-Specification Language -- 9.4 The Software Framework -- 9.5 The Integration Model -- 9.6 Case Study -- 9.7 Conclusions and Future Work -- Chapter 10 Connecting the Dots: Using REST and Hypermedia to Publish Digital Content -- 10.1 Introduction -- 10.2 Abril Group -- 10.2.1 How Company Structure Influences the Solution? -- 10.3 Alexandria Platform -- 10.3.1 Domains -- 10.3.2 Services -- 10.3.3 Data Entry -- 10.3.4 Site Tools -- 10.3.5 System Interactions -- 10.3.6 Operational and Technical Details -- 10.3.6.1 Platform Evolution.
10.3.6.2 Team Organization -- 10.3.6.3 Technology Applied -- 10.4 REST Constraints Applied -- 10.4.1 Client-Server (CS) -- 10.4.2 Stateless (S) -- 10.4.3 Cache () -- 10.4.4 Layered System (L) -- 10.4.5 Code-on-Demand (COD) -- 10.5 Uniform Interface -- 10.5.1 Resources -- 10.5.1.1 Abstract Resources -- 10.5.1.2 Concrete Resources -- 10.5.2 Resource Identification -- 10.5.3 Representations -- 10.5.4 Hypermedia -- 10.6 Evaluation -- 10.7 Conclusion -- 10.7.1 Lessons Learned -- 10.7.1.1 Robustness Over Protocol Optimization -- 10.7.2 Future Improvements -- Chapter 11 In-Process REST at the BBC -- 11.1 Introduction -- 11.2 The Task and Its First Solution -- 11.2.1 Version 1 -- 11.2.2 Analysis -- 11.2.3 Solution Sketch -- 11.3 Architecture -- 11.4 Implementation -- 11.4.1 Feeds and Domain Objects -- 11.4.2 SiteMaps -- 11.4.3 Bridges and Templates -- 11.4.4 Ceefax and WAP -- 11.5 Results -- 11.6 Evaluation -- 11.6.1 REST Constraints -- 11.6.2 Drawbacks -- 11.7 Related Work -- 11.8 Conclusion and Outlook -- References.
Summary: 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.
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Intro -- Contents -- Contributors -- Editorial Board -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- 1.1 REST Design Constraints -- 1.2 REST Activities and this Book -- 1.2.1 REST Research -- 1.2.2 Practical Applications -- Part I REST Research -- Chapter 2 Communication and Capability URLs in COAST-based Decentralized Services -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Decentralized Systems via Computation Exchange -- 2.3 The COAST Architectural Style -- 2.4 Capability URLs in Detail -- 2.5 Motile/Island: A Reference Infrastructure -- 2.6 Related Work -- 2.7 Conclusion and Future Work -- Chapter 3 Interoperability of Two RESTful Protocols: HTTP and CoAP -- 3.1 The Internet of Things (IoT) -- 3.2 Embedded Devices -- 3.3 Architectural Design for Constrained Environment -- 3.3.1 Reliability and Resiliency to Heterogeneity -- 3.3.2 Asynchronous Reliable Messaging -- 3.3.3 Data Representation Modeling -- 3.3.4 Loose Coupling -- 3.3.5 Driving the Application State for Resource Discovery -- 3.3.6 Secured Communication -- 3.4 Discussion -- 3.5 Scenario: CoAP and HTTP Heterogeneous Network -- 3.6 Conclusion -- Chapter 4 Enabling Real-Time Resource Oriented Architectures with REST Observers -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Motivation and Related Work -- 4.2.1 Web Syndication and Search Engines -- 4.2.2 Server-to-Server Change Propagation -- 4.2.3 Server-to-Client Change Propagation -- 4.2.4 Summary -- 4.3 The REST Observer Architecture Pattern -- 4.4 The Web-Based Realization of REST Observer -- 4.4.1 The Resource of Interest -- 4.4.2 The Observer Resource -- 4.4.2.1 Notification Delivery -- 4.4.2.2 Inline Delivery -- 4.4.2.3 External Delivery -- 4.4.3 Notification Semantics -- 4.4.3.1 Updating or Editing -- 4.4.3.2 Deletion -- 4.4.3.3 Creation -- 4.4.4 Interaction -- 4.5 Implementation Experience -- 4.5.1 The Prototype Environment -- 4.5.2 Resources and Representations.

4.5.3 Notifications Mechanics -- 4.6 Discussion -- 4.6.1 On the RESTfulness of the REST Observer Pattern -- 4.6.2 On the Implementation of the Uniform Interface -- 4.6.3 Observation Granularity and Filtering -- 4.6.4 Example Deployments -- 4.7 Conclusions and Future Work -- Chapter 5 Survey of Semantic Description of REST APIs -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Lightweight Semantic Descriptions -- 5.2.1 Syntactic REST API Descriptions -- 5.2.2 MicroWSMO/SA-REST -- 5.2.3 Minimal Service Model -- 5.2.4 Further Semantic Approaches -- 5.3 SPARQL-Based Descriptions -- 5.4 Logic-Based Descriptions -- 5.4.1 RESTdesc -- 5.5 JSON-Based Descriptions -- 5.5.1 SEREDASj -- 5.6 Tools -- 5.6.1 Karma -- 5.6.2 SWEET -- 5.7 Open Problems and Future Work -- 5.7.1 Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) -- 5.7.2 Authentication -- 5.7.3 CORS and Authentication in API Descriptions -- 5.8 Conclusion -- Chapter 6 APIs to Affordances: A New Paradigm for Services on the Web -- 6.1 Background -- 6.1.1 More Devices -- 6.1.2 The À̀pp Economy'' -- 6.1.3 More Services -- 6.1.4 Summary -- 6.2 The Problem -- 6.2.1 Technical Difficulties -- 6.2.1.1 Treating HTTP as a Transport -- 6.2.1.2 Loss of Connector-Component Model -- 6.2.2 Competing Priorities -- 6.2.2.1 Immediate Usability -- 6.2.2.2 Long-Term Evolvability -- 6.2.3 The Time Dimension -- 6.2.3.1 REST Resources Over Time -- 6.2.3.2 Static Contracts -- 6.2.3.3 Transient Devices, Persistent Networks -- 6.3 Other Disciplines -- 6.3.1 Architecture -- 6.3.2 Visual Perception -- 6.3.3 Industrial Design -- 6.3.4 Cross-Cultural Mono-Myth -- 6.3.5 The Map is not the Territory -- 6.3.6 Summary -- 6.4 An Affordance Paradigm -- 6.4.1 Affordance-Rich Messages (ARMs) -- 6.4.2 Programming the Network -- 6.4.3 A Working Model -- 6.4.3.1 An ARM Network -- 6.4.3.2 ARM-Capable Devices -- 6.4.3.3 ARM Design Model -- 6.4.3.4 ARM Evaluation Model.

6.5 Related Work -- 6.5.1 Web Intents -- 6.5.2 ql.io -- 6.5.3 Hypertext Application Language (HAL) -- 6.6 Conclusion -- Chapter 7 Leveraging Linked Data to Build Hypermedia-Driven Web APIs -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Hypermedia-Driven Web APIs: Challengesand Best Practices -- 7.3 Linked Data and JSON-LD -- 7.4 Hydra: A Lightweight Vocabulary for Hypermedia-Driven Web APIs -- 7.5 Design Guidelines -- 7.6 Adding Hydra Support to Web Frameworks -- 7.6.1 Case Study: Issue Tracker -- 7.7 Conclusions and Outlook -- Chapter 8 RestML: Modeling RESTful Web Services -- 8.1 Service Oriented Computing -- 8.2 Model Driven Development -- 8.3 Related Work -- 8.4 RestML -- 8.4.1 UML Profile -- 8.4.2 Modeling RESTful Web Services -- 8.4.3 RESTful Web Services in JavaEE Platform -- 8.4.4 MDA Approach -- 8.4.5 Case Study: AgendaWS -- 8.4.6 The Domain Models (CIM) -- 8.4.6.1 Use Cases -- 8.4.6.2 Use Case Diagrams -- 8.4.6.3 Activity Diagram -- 8.4.7 Platform Independent Models (PIM) -- 8.4.7.1 Class Diagram -- 8.4.7.2 Sequence Diagram -- 8.4.8 Platform Specific Model (PSM) -- 8.4.9 Source-Code -- 8.4.10 Packaging and Deployment -- 8.5 Final Remarks -- Part II Practical Applications -- Chapter 9 A Lightweight Coordination Approach for Resource-Centric Collaborations -- 9.1 Introduction -- 9.2 Related Work -- 9.3 The Collaboration-Specification Language -- 9.4 The Software Framework -- 9.5 The Integration Model -- 9.6 Case Study -- 9.7 Conclusions and Future Work -- Chapter 10 Connecting the Dots: Using REST and Hypermedia to Publish Digital Content -- 10.1 Introduction -- 10.2 Abril Group -- 10.2.1 How Company Structure Influences the Solution? -- 10.3 Alexandria Platform -- 10.3.1 Domains -- 10.3.2 Services -- 10.3.3 Data Entry -- 10.3.4 Site Tools -- 10.3.5 System Interactions -- 10.3.6 Operational and Technical Details -- 10.3.6.1 Platform Evolution.

10.3.6.2 Team Organization -- 10.3.6.3 Technology Applied -- 10.4 REST Constraints Applied -- 10.4.1 Client-Server (CS) -- 10.4.2 Stateless (S) -- 10.4.3 Cache () -- 10.4.4 Layered System (L) -- 10.4.5 Code-on-Demand (COD) -- 10.5 Uniform Interface -- 10.5.1 Resources -- 10.5.1.1 Abstract Resources -- 10.5.1.2 Concrete Resources -- 10.5.2 Resource Identification -- 10.5.3 Representations -- 10.5.4 Hypermedia -- 10.6 Evaluation -- 10.7 Conclusion -- 10.7.1 Lessons Learned -- 10.7.1.1 Robustness Over Protocol Optimization -- 10.7.2 Future Improvements -- Chapter 11 In-Process REST at the BBC -- 11.1 Introduction -- 11.2 The Task and Its First Solution -- 11.2.1 Version 1 -- 11.2.2 Analysis -- 11.2.3 Solution Sketch -- 11.3 Architecture -- 11.4 Implementation -- 11.4.1 Feeds and Domain Objects -- 11.4.2 SiteMaps -- 11.4.3 Bridges and Templates -- 11.4.4 Ceefax and WAP -- 11.5 Results -- 11.6 Evaluation -- 11.6.1 REST Constraints -- 11.6.2 Drawbacks -- 11.7 Related Work -- 11.8 Conclusion and Outlook -- References.

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.

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