Title :
A RESTful approach: clean UPnP without SOAP
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Network Comput., Monash Univ., Clayton, Vic., Australia
Abstract :
UPnP is middleware designed for network "plug and play". It uses technologies developed specifically for UPnP but also borrows technologies such as SOAP from Web services for remote procedure calls. SOAP has been criticised as inappropriate for Web systems and this paper shows that these criticisms are equally applicable for UPnP. It shows how mechanisms built on REST principles can produce smaller, faster and simpler UPnP systems.
Keywords :
Internet; middleware; protocols; telecommunication services; RESTful approach; SOAP; UPnP; Web service; middleware; network protocol; plug and play; Computer networks; Home automation; Java; Middleware; Network servers; Plugs; Simple object access protocol; Web services; World Wide Web; XML;
Conference_Titel :
Consumer Communications and Networking Conference, 2005. CCNC. 2005 Second IEEE
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8784-8
DOI :
10.1109/CCNC.2005.1405157
