Architectural styles and the design of network-based software architectures
Architectural styles and the design of network-based software architectures
Restful web services vs. "big"' web services: making the right architectural decision
Proceedings of the 17th international conference on World Wide Web
Restful web services
Why is the web loosely coupled?: a multi-faceted metric for service design
Proceedings of the 18th international conference on World wide web
RESTful Web service composition with BPEL for REST
Data & Knowledge Engineering
REST in Practice: Hypermedia and Systems Architecture
REST in Practice: Hypermedia and Systems Architecture
A survey of automated web service composition methods
SWSWPC'04 Proceedings of the First international conference on Semantic Web Services and Web Process Composition
ArRESTed Development: Guidelines for Designing REST Frameworks
IEEE Internet Computing
Welcome to the Real World: A Notation for Modeling REST Services
IEEE Internet Computing
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Since Fielding's seminal contribution on the REST architecture style in 2000, the so-called class of RESTful services has taken off to challenge previously existing Web services. Several books have since then emerged, providing a set of valuable guidelines and design principles for the development of truly RESTful services. However, today's most popular "RESTful" services adopt only few of these guidelines, resulting in overburdening developers integrating multiple services in mashup applications. In this paper we present an in-depth analysis for the top 20 RESTful services listed on programmableweb.com against 17 RESTful service design criteria found in literature. Results provide evidence that hardly any of the services claiming to be RESTful is truly RESTful, probably due to the lack of rigidness and ease-of-use of currently available decision criteria. To improve the situation, we provide recommendations for various stakeholder groups.