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标题：RESTifying a Legacy Semantic Search System: Experience and Lessons Learned
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作者：Guillermo Vega-Gorgojo (University of Valladolid ; Spain) Eduardo Gómez-Sánchez (University of Valladolid ; Spain) Miguel L. Bote-Lorenzo (University of Valladolid 等
期刊名称：Journal of Universal Computer Science
印刷版ISSN：0948-6968
出版年度：2012
卷号：18
期号：2
出版社：Graz University of Technology and Know-Center
摘要：The REST architectural style pursues scalability and decoupling of application components on target architectures, as opposed to the focus on distribution transparency of RPC-based middleware infrastructures. Ongoing debate between REST and RPC proponents evidences the need of comparisons of both approaches, as well as case studies showing the implications in the development of RESTful applications. With this aim, this paper presents a revamped RESTful version of a legacy RPC-based search system of educational tools named Ontoolsearch. The former version suffers from reduced interoperability with third-party clients, limited visibility of interactions and has some scalability issues due to the use of an RPC-based middleware. These limitations are addressed in the RESTful application as a result of applying REST constraints and using the Atom data format. Further, a benchmarking experiment showed that scalability of the RESTful prototype is superior, measuring a â¼3 times increase of peak throughput. In addition, some lessons learned on RESTful design and implementation have been derived from this work that may be of interest for future developments.