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http://dx.doi.org/10.6109/JKIICE.2009.13.4.714

An Implementation of WADL2Stub System for REST Web Services  

Lee, Hwa-Min (순천향대학교 컴퓨터학부)
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Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering / v.13, no.4, 2009 , pp. 714-719 More about this Journal
Abstract
Recently, RESTful web service is getting attention with the emergence of Web 2.0. The main advantages of REST web services are lightweight and easy implementation compared to SOAP based web services. In order to define and describe RESTful APIs, various methods have proposed. WSDL 2.0 can describe both SOAP-based and RESTful services and but it is too complicated. WADL is championed by Sun Microsystems and it is lightweight, easier to understand and easier to write than WSDL. The purpose of WADL is to allow web services to be described in a machine readable way, to make it easy to create Web 2.0 applications and create a dynamic way of creating and configuring services. However, WADL does not provide utility tools to generate client code automatically and the developers describe client code manually. In this paper, we design and implement a WADL2Stub system to generate client code from WADL files automatically so that the developers use REST web services to easily and conveniently.
Keywords
WADL; REST Web Service; Client Code; Utility Tools;
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