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From representations to computations: the evolution of web architectures

Authors:

Justin R. Erenkrantz,

Michael Gorlick,

Girish Suryanarayana,

Richard N. TaylorAuthors Info & Claims

ESEC-FSE '07: Proceedings of the the 6th joint meeting of the European software engineering conference and the ACM SIGSOFT symposium on The foundations of software engineering

Pages 255 - 264

https://doi.org/10.1145/1287624.1287660

Published: 07 September 2007 Publication History

Abstract

REpresentational State Transfer (REST) guided the creation and expansion of the modern web. What began as an internet-scale distributed hypermedia system is now a vast sea of shared and interdependent services. However, despite the expressive power of REST, not all of its benefits are consistently realized by working systems. To resolve the dissonance between the promise of REST and the reality of fielded systems, we critically examine numerous web architectures. Our investigation yields a set of extensions to REST, an architectural style called Computational REST (CREST), that not only offers additional design guidance, but pinpoints, in many cases, the root cause of the apparent dissonance between style and implementation. Furthermore, CREST explains emerging web architectures (such as mashups) and points to novel computational structures.

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From representations to computations: the evolution of web architectures
1. Software and its engineering
  1. Software organization and properties
    1. Software system structures
      1. Software architectures

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ESEC-FSE '07: Proceedings of the the 6th joint meeting of the European software engineering conference and the ACM SIGSOFT symposium on The foundations of software engineering

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ISBN:9781595938114

DOI:10.1145/1287624

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