A Framework for the RESTful Provisioning of Community-Contributed Web Services

Abstract

Despite research spanning more than a decade in the area of Web services, the industry has not yet seen a consensus regarding an effective method for the provisioning of Web services. In recent years, a new paradigm for implementing Web services based on Representational State Transfer, the successful architectural foundation of the Web, has seen greater interest in the industry. This thesis proposes a framework for the implementation of platforms for provisioning community-contributed Web services using the Representational State Transfer (REST) paradigm. A prototype implementation of the framework has been developed for use as a reference. The results of evaluating the prototype demonstrate the feasibility and extensibility of the framework, particularly in the dynamic programming problem sub-domain.