Paper Info
Title
On using JSON-LD to create evolvable RESTful services
Abstract
As the amount of data and devices on the Web experiences exponential growth issues on how to integrate such hugely heterogeneous components into a scalable system become increasingly important. REST has proven to be a viable solution for such large-scale information systems. It provides a set of architectural constraints that, when applied as a whole, result in benefits in terms of loose coupling, maintainability, evolvability, and scalability. Unfortunately, some of REST's constraints such as the ones that demand self-descriptive messages or require the use of hypermedia as the engine of application state are rarely implemented correctly. This results in tightly coupled and thus brittle systems. To solve these and other issues, we present JSON-LD, a community effort to standardize a media type targeted to machine-to-machine communication with inherent hypermedia support and rich semantics. Since JSON-LD is 100% compatible with traditional JSON, developers can continue to use their existing tools and libraries. As we show in the paper, JSON-LD can be used to build truly RESTful services that, at the same time, integrate the exposed data into the Semantic Web. The required additional design costs are significantly outweighed by the achievable benefits in terms of loose coupling, evolvability, scalability, self-descriptiveness, and maintainability.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1145/2307819.2307827
WS-REST
Keywords
Field
DocType
community effort,architectural constraint,restful service,application state,exposed data,loose coupling,achievable benefit,evolvable restful service,inherent hypermedia support,semantic web,brittle system,web service,linked data,web services,exponential growth,rest,information system,json ld
Representational state transfer,Software engineering,Computer science,Loose coupling,Semantic Web,Web service,JSON,Maintainability,Scalability,Distributed computing,JSON-LD
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
38
2.92
4
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Markus Lanthaler110811.34
Christian Gütl222834.68