REST: Advanced Research Topics and Practical Applications

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.

• Introduction.- Communication and Capability URLs in COAST-based Decentralized Services.- Interoperability of two RESTful protocols: HTTP and CoAP.- Enabling Real-Time Resource Oriented Architectures with REST Observers.- Survey of Semantic Description of REST APIs.- APIs to A ordances: A New Paradigm for Services on the Web.- Leveraging Linked Data to Build Hypermedia-Driven Web APIs.- RestML: Modeling RESTful Web Services.- A Lightweight Coordination Approach For Resource-Centric Collaborations.- Connecting the Dots: Using REST and Hypermedia to publish Digital Content.- In-Process REST at the BBC.

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)