REST: An alternative to RPC for Web services architecture

Author

Feng, Xinyang ; Shen, Jianjing ; Fan, Ying

Author_Institution

Inf. Eng. Univ., Zhengzhou, China

fYear

2009

fDate

14-17 Oct. 2009

Firstpage

7

Lastpage

10

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

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

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICFIN.2009.5339611

Filename

5339611