REST: From Research to Practice

Cesare Pautasso is assistant professor in the Faculty of Informatics at the Uni­versity of Lugano, Switzerland. Previously he was a researcher at the IBM Zurich Research Lab and a senior researcher at ETH Zurich, where he earned his PhD in 2004. His research group focuses on building experimental systems to explore the intersection of model-driven software composition techniques, business process modeling languages, and autonomic/cloud computing. His research, teaching and consulting activities both in academia and in industry cover advanced topics related to Software Architecture and Design, Self-Organizing Service Oriented Architectures and emerging liquid Web services tech­nologies. He is an active member of the ACM and the IEEE Computer Society where he has served on more than 100 conference and workshop program commit­tees. He has also started the series of International Workshops on RESTful Design (WS-REST) at the WWW conference. He has been the program chair and general chair of the IEEE European Conference on Web Services (ECOWS). He is a reviewer for several international funding agencies, including the EU FET-Open program. Since 2010, he is a member of the advisory board of Consilience International LLC. He is the lead architect of JOpera (www.jopera.org), a powerful RESTful service composition tool for Eclipse and the author of the BPEL for REST and BPMN for REST standard extensions. For more information, visit www.pautasso.info and follow him on @pautasso. Dr. Wilde is the conference chair for the REST conference as well as Associate Adjunct Professor at Berkeley.

• Introduction.- I. Foundations.- 1. The Essence of REST Architectural Style.- 2. REST and Web Services: in Theory and in Practice.- II. Design.- 3. Designing a RESTful Domain Application Protocol.- 4.Designing Hypermedia Engines.- 5. Beyond CRUD.- 6. Quantifying Integration Architectures.- 7. FOREST — An Interacting Object Web.- III. Development Frameworks.- 8. Hypermedia-Driven Framework for Scalable and Adaptive Application Sharing.- 9.RESTful Service Development for Resource-constrained Environments.- 10. A REST Framework for Dynamic Client Environments.- 11. From Requirements to a RESTful Web Service — Engineering Content Oriented Web Services with REST.- 12. A Framework for Rapid Development of REST Web Services for Integrating Information Systems.- IV. Application Case Studies.- 13. Managing Legacy Telco Datausing RESTful Web Services.- 14. Case Study on the Use of REST Architectural Principles for Scientific Analysis: CAMERA — Community Cyberinfrastructure forAdvanced Microbial Ecology Research and Analysis.- 15. Practical REST indata-centric business applications: the case of Cofidis Hispania.- V. REST and Pervasive Computing.- 16. RESTifying Real-World Systems: a Practical Case Studyin RFID.- 17. Leveraging the Web for a Distributed Location-aware Infrastructure for the Real World.- 18. RESTful service architectures for pervasive networking environments.- VI. REST Research.- 19. On Entities in the Web of Data.- 20. A Resource Oriented Multimedia Description Framework.- 21. Metadata Architecture in RESTful Design.- 22. RESTful Services with Lightweight Machine-readable Descriptions and Semantic Annotations.- 23. Towards Distributed Atomic Transactions Over RESTful Services.