Composing RESTful Services and Collaborative Workflows: A Lightweight Approach

  • Authors:
  • Florian Rosenberg;Francisco Curbera;Matthew J. Duftler;Rania Khalaf

  • Affiliations:
  • Technical University Vienna;IBM T.J. Watson Research Center;IBM T.J. Watson Research Center;IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Internet Computing
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

The use of RESTful Web services has gained momentum in the development of distributed applications based on traditional Web standards such as HTTP. In particular, these services can integrate easily into various applications, such as mashups. Composing RESTful services into Web-scale workflows requires a lightweight composition language that's capable of describing both the control and data flow that constitute a workflow. The authors address these issues with Bite, a lightweight and extensible composition language that enables the creation of Web-scale workflows and uses RESTful services as its main composable entities.