Businesses are increasingly deploying their services on the web, in the form of web
applications, SOAP services, message-based services, and, more recently, REST services …

Abstract Initial developments in Service-Oriented Computing (SOC) led to the development
of Web Services using the SOAP protocol and an extensive set of tools and methods for …

Abstract Context Web APIs are one of the most used ways to expose application functionality
on the Web, and their understandability is important for efficiently using the provided …

Today, REST APIs have established as a means for realizing distributed systems and are
supposed to gain even more importance in the context of Cloud Computing, Internet of …

As distribution models of information systems are moving to XaaS paradigms, microservices
architectures are rapidly emerging, having the RESTful principles as the API model of …

Cloud services have unique characteristics, including dynamic and diverse service offerings
at different levels, few standardized description languages, and varied deployment …

REST is nowadays highly popular and widely adopted by Web services providers. However,
most of the Web services providers only provide the documentation of their REST API in …

Recent developments in the world of services on the Web show that both the number of
available Web APIs as well as the applications built on top is constantly increasing. This …

The design of applications that comply to the REST architectural style requires observing a
given set of architectural constraints. Following these constraints and therefore designing …

Architectural decisions determine the ability of the implemented system to satisfy functional
and quality attribute requirements. The Representational State Transfer (REST) architectural …