REST - Why it became the new norm on the web

REST became the go to approach when it comes to large scale distributed systems on, or outside the World Wide Web. This paper aims to give a brief overview of what REST is and what its main draws and benefits are. Secondly, I will showcase the implementation of REST using HTTP and why this approach became as popular as it is today. Based on my research I concluded that REST’s advantages in scalability, coupling, performance and its seamless integration with HTTP enabled it to rightfully overtake classic RPC based approaches.

Metadaten
Author:	Sebastian Faust
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:832-epub4-13702
Document Type:	Study Thesis
Language:	English
Date of first Publication:	2019/06/11
Date of Publication (online):	2019/06/11
GND-Keyword:	API; Client-Server-Konzept; HTTP; Hypermedia; REST <Informatik>; Schnittstelle
Tag:	API; REST; RESTful; SOAP
Page Number:	6
Institutes:	Informatik und Ingenieurwissenschaften (F10) / Fakultät 10 / Institut für Informatik
CCS-Classification:	C. Computer Systems Organization
	H. Information Systems
Dewey Decimal Classification:	000 Allgemeines, Informatik, Informationswissenschaft
JEL-Classification:	C Mathematical and Quantitative Methods
Open Access:	Open Access
Licence (German):	Creative Commons - CC BY - Namensnennung 4.0 International

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