RESTful service composition at a glance: A survey

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• 作者：Martin Garriga^a ; ^c ; ^{martin.garriga@fi.uncoma.edu.ar" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author} ; Cristian Mateos^b ; ^c ; ^{cmateos@conicet.gov.ar" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author} ; Andres Flores^a ; ^c ; ^{andres.flores@fi.uncoma.edu.ar" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author} ; Alejandra Cechich^a ; ^{acechich@fi.uncoma.edu.ar" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author} ; Alejandro Zunino^b ; ^c ; ^{azunino@conicet.gov.ar" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author}
• 关键词：Web Services ; Restful services ; Service composition ; Service mashups
• 刊名：Journal of Network and Computer Applications
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：January 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：60
• 期：Complete
• 页码：32-53
• 全文大小：1052 K

文摘

In the last years, Web Service composition has undoubtedly become the most promising way to integrate business-to-business applications. However, the industry and the academia often disagree on materializing current solutions, which are based on either SOAP Web Services or semantic Web Services. Besides, any service composition mechanism entails multiple and complex factors such as adaptability, scalability and lightweightness. Recently, RESTful services have shown their potential to compose reliable and visible Web-scale applications based on the so-called mashups. In this paper, we survey a comprehensive set of RESTful composition approaches, i.e., the most promising in their area, totaling 29 approaches. Then, we propose two sets of features to analyze, characterize and compare such approaches: features inherent to SOAP services composition approaches and RESTful services composition features. Lastly, we discuss research challenges and open research problems in the area.