Title :
REST: An alternative to RPC for Web services architecture
Author :
Feng, Xinyang ; Shen, Jianjing ; Fan, Ying
Author_Institution :
Inf. Eng. Univ., Zhengzhou, China
Abstract :
Currently most Web services architectures adopt RPC as their architectural style. But because of the complexity of RPC, there are bottlenecks of RPC-style Web services in Web-scale applications. REST not only can make full use of Web features, but also has the advantage of simplicity. So REST becomes a new alternative to RPC for Web services architecture. In this paper, at first the brief introductions of RPC and REST are provided. Then two kinds of architectural styles are analyzed and compared from the perspectives of scalability, coupling, and security. In the end the development trend of Web services architecture is prospected.
Keywords :
Web services; telecommunication security; REST; RPC; Web services architecture; coupling; representational state transfer; scalability; security; Computer architecture; Contracts; Distributed computing; Representational state transfer; Scalability; Security; Service oriented architecture; Simple object access protocol; TV; Web services; Architectural Styles; REST; RPC; Web Services;
Conference_Titel :
Future Information Networks, 2009. ICFIN 2009. First International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Beijing
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-5158-6
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-5159-3
DOI :
10.1109/ICFIN.2009.5339611
