Principled design of the modern web architecture

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by Roy T. Fielding , Richard N. Taylor

Venue:	ACM Trans. Internet Techn
Citations:	507 - 14 self

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@ARTICLE{Fielding_principleddesign,
    author = {Roy T. Fielding and Richard N. Taylor},
    title = {Principled design of the modern web architecture},
    journal = {ACM Trans. Internet Techn},
    year = {},
    pages = {2002}
}

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The World Wide Web has succeeded in large part because its software architecture has been designed to meet the needs of an Internet-scale distributed hypermedia system. The modern Web architecture emphasizes scalability of component interactions, generality of interfaces, independent deployment of components, and intermediary components to reduce interaction latency, enforce security, and encapsulate legacy systems. In this paper, we introduce the Representational State Transfer (REST) architectural style, developed as an abstract model of the Web architecture to guide our redesign and definition of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol and Uniform Resource Identifiers. We describe the software engineering principles guiding REST and the interaction constraints chosen to retain those principles, contrasting them to the constraints of other architectural styles. We then compare the abstract model to the currently deployed Web architecture in order to elicit mismatches between the existing protocols and the applications they are intended to support.

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modern web architecture abstract model web architecture architectural style representational state transfer component interaction hypertext transfer protocol software architecture enforce security independent deployment software engineering principle interaction latency interaction constraint uniform resource identifier encapsulate legacy system internet-scale distributed hypermedia system intermediary component large part world wide web

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