A novel approach to mapping Web Services to rest

Sean Kennedy, Owen Molloy

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Abstract

Web Services are defined by the W3C as "a software system designed to support interoperable machine to machine interaction over a network." WS- * and Plain Old XML (POX) are popular approaches to Web Services' implementation. Both approaches can use HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP) for transferring their messages and markup their RPC (Remote Procedure Call) based payloads with eXtensible Markup Language (XML). Representational State Transfer (REST) is an alternative approach that is gaining in popularity. We present the issues of XML-RPC based Web Services (XML verbosity and message opacity) and why a RESTful approach solves these issues. We present results which show the improved performance. We present a framework that translates request messages from XML-RPC to RESTful format. This framework is ideally suited to enable enterprises to gradually transition from XML-RPC to RESTful Web Services.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Internet Technologies and Applications, ITA 09
Pages220-228
Number of pages9
Publication statusPublished - 2009
Event3rd International Conference on Internet Technologies and Applications, ITA 09 - Wrexham, Wales, United Kingdom
Duration: 8 Sep 200911 Sep 2009

Publication series

NameProceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Internet Technologies and Applications, ITA 09

Conference

Conference3rd International Conference on Internet Technologies and Applications, ITA 09
Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
CityWrexham, Wales
Period8/09/0911/09/09

Keywords

  • POX
  • REST
  • WS-
  • Web Services
  • XML

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