IBM CAS RESEARCH PROJECT
“Framework for the
Integration of
Using the REST Protocol”
Kostas
Kontogiannis, NTUA
Mike Athanasopoulos, NTUA
Over the past decade we are experiencing a steady growth
on software applications that are based on the Service Oriented paradigm, and
in particular Service Oriented Architecture. As enterprises have started
implementing and deploying successfully such Service Oriented systems, the
interest and complexity of the related technology started also growing in a
fast pace. The area is currently witnessing a plethora of protocols and
standards that grew to a point that requires highly specialized programming
skills for someone to design, implement, test and deploy such systems. This
creates the need for appropriate infrastructure, models, and practices to be
put in place so that analysts, developers and end-users can better and faster
rip the benefits of Service Orientation without the need to know all the
details of the underlying technology but rather being able to focus on what
matters the most, that is the business logic and services behind these large
corporate systems. The
project aims to devise novel techniques that allow for the seamless utilization
of REST and WS-* types of resources and components with the purpose of integrating
and composing large scale enterprise systems in a mashup style.