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Composing RESTful Services with JOpera

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Software Composition (SC 2009)

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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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  1. Faculty of Informatics, University of Lugano, Switzerland

    Cesare Pautasso

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  1. Computer Science Department (DCC), Universidad De Chile, Blanco Encalada 2120, Santiago, Chile

    Alexandre Bergel

  2. PLEIAD Laboratroy, Computer Science Department (DCC), Universidad De Chile, Blanco Encalada 2120, Santiago, Chile

    Johan Fabry

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Pautasso, C. (2009). Composing RESTful Services with JOpera. In: Bergel, A., Fabry, J. (eds) Software Composition. SC 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5634. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02655-3_11

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