TY - GEN
T1 - Modeling behavioral RESTful web service interfaces in UML
AU - Porres, Ivan
AU - Rauf, Irum
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - A web service interface contains information about the names of the operations that can be invoked on the service and the input and output parameters of these operations. The Web Application Description Language (WADL) is a language to describe the interface of a web service that follows the Representation State Transfer (REST) architectural style. Currently, WADL descriptions do not describe the behavioral semantics of the operations neither ensure that the published interfaces follow the REST style, that is they are RESTful. In this paper, we present an approach to model the structural and behavioral interface of a RESTful web service using UML class and UML protocol diagrams. These models lead to RESTful interfaces that describe the behavior of operations in terms of preconditions and postconditions. The contracts can then be published in an extended version of the WADL language and used for documentation, stub generation, testing and monitoring purposes.
AB - A web service interface contains information about the names of the operations that can be invoked on the service and the input and output parameters of these operations. The Web Application Description Language (WADL) is a language to describe the interface of a web service that follows the Representation State Transfer (REST) architectural style. Currently, WADL descriptions do not describe the behavioral semantics of the operations neither ensure that the published interfaces follow the REST style, that is they are RESTful. In this paper, we present an approach to model the structural and behavioral interface of a RESTful web service using UML class and UML protocol diagrams. These models lead to RESTful interfaces that describe the behavior of operations in terms of preconditions and postconditions. The contracts can then be published in an extended version of the WADL language and used for documentation, stub generation, testing and monitoring purposes.
KW - behavioral interface
KW - contract
KW - protocol state machine
KW - REST
KW - UML
KW - WADL
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/79959305673
U2 - 10.1145/1982185.1982521
DO - 10.1145/1982185.1982521
M3 - Conference proceeding
AN - SCOPUS:79959305673
SN - 9781450301138
T3 - Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing
SP - 1598
EP - 1605
BT - 26th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, SAC 2011
T2 - 26th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, SAC 2011
Y2 - 21 March 2011 through 24 March 2011
ER -