Silvia Schreier
ABSTRACT
Today, Representational State Transfer (REST) is becoming more and more important. RESTful web services are an alternative to Remote Procedure Call technologies like SOAP and WS-* services. There are many frameworks for implementing RESTful applications, but there is still a lack of support for the early phases of the development process, particularly analysis and design. For building formal models of RESTful applications an appropriate metamodel is needed. After analyzing existing approaches and techniques a first version of such a REST metamodel is presented and used to model an example application. Beside enabling modeling, such a metamodel offers a vocabulary for REST in practice and the basis for model driven development.
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Index Terms
- Modeling RESTful applications
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Nathan Carlson
In his PhD thesis [1], over a decade ago, Roy Fielding introduced representational state transfer (REST) as an architectural style. Since that time, researchers have examined and documented the benefits of RESTful architecture, and have done work toward modeling REST implementations [2,3]. Surprisingly little work has been done to establish a metamodel that can facilitate better understanding among practitioners and provide a foundation for expanded support in development tools. The goal of this paper is not to completely fill this void, but to pave the way toward establishing such a metamodel by offering an initial iteration. The author spends some time reviewing the state of the art in REST research and establishing the need for a REST metamodel. The latter discussion places the development of a metamodel squarely in a model-driven development context, without dwelling excessively on the fundamentals of that approach. The majority of the paper describes the metamodel, and applies it to an example photo album application. A number of grammatical errors occur throughout the paper; at best they are distracting, and sometimes confusing. In spite of these, the proposed REST metamodel accomplishes the author's stated intent of making RESTful implementation more practical by supporting the entire development process (and application modeling in particular). Online Computing Reviews Service
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