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Composing RESTful Services with JOpera

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Cesare PautassoAuthors Info & Claims

SC '09: Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Software Composition

Pages 142 - 159

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02655-3_11

Published: 30 June 2009 Publication History

Abstract

The REST architectural style is emerging as an alternative technology platform for the realization of service-oriented architectures. In this paper, we apply the notion of composition to RESTful services and derive a set of language features that are required by composition languages for RESTful services: dynamic late binding, dynamic typing, content-type negotiation, state inspection, and compliance with the uniform interface principle. To show how such requirements can be satisfied by an existing composition language, we include a case-study using the JOpera visual composition language. In it, we present how to build a composite application (DoodleMap) out of some well-known, public and currently existing RESTful service APIs.

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SC '09: Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Software Composition

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