UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE Architectural Styles and the Design of Network-based Software Architectures DISSERTATION submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY in Information and Computer Science by Roy Thomas Fielding 2000 Dissertation Committee: Professor Richard N. Taylor Chair Professor Mark S. Ackerman Professor David S. Rosenblum PDF Editions 1-column for viewing online 2-column for printing Table of Contents Dedication Acknowledgments Curriculum Vitae Abstract of the Dissertation Introduction CHAPTER 1: Software Architecture 1.1 Run-time Abstraction 1.2 Elements 1.3 Configurations 1.4 Properties 1.5 Styles 1.6 Patterns and Pattern Languages 1.7 Views 1.8 Related Work 1.9 Summary CHAPTER 2: Network-based Application Architectures 2.1 Scope 2.2 Evaluating the Design of Application Architectures 2.3 Architectural Properties of Key Inte
rest 2.4 Summary CHAPTER 3: Network-based Architectural Styles 3.1 Classification Methodology 3.2 Data-flow Styles 3.3 Replication Styles 3.4 Hierarchical Styles 3.5 Mobile Code Styles 3.6 Peer-to-Peer Styles 3.7 Limitations 3.8 Related Work 3.9 Summary CHAPTER 4: Designing the Web Architecture: Problems and Insights 4.1 WWW Application Domain Requirements 4.2 Problem 4.3 Approach 4.4 Summary CHAPTER 5: Representational State Transfer (
REST) 5.1 Deriving
REST 5.2
REST Architectural Elements 5.3
REST Architectural Views 5.4 Related Work 5.5 Summary CHAPTER 6: Experience and Evaluation 6.1 Standardizing the Web 6.2
REST Applied to URI 6.3
REST Applied to HTTP 6.4 Technology Transfer 6.5 Architectural Lessons 6.6 Summary Conclusions References List of Figures Figure 5-1. Null Style Figure 5-2. Client-Server Figure 5-3. Client-Stateless-Server Figure 5-4. Client-Cache-Stateless-Server Figure 5-5. Early WWW Architecture Diagram Figure 5-6. Uniform-Client-Cache-Stateless-Server Figure 5-7. Uniform-Layered-Client-Cache-Stateless-Server Figure 5-8.
REST Figure 5-9.
REST Derivation by Style Constraints Figure 5-10. Process View of a
REST-based Architecture List of Tables Table 3-1. Evaluation of Data-flow Styles for Network-based Hypermedia Table 3-2. Evaluation of Replication Styles for Network-based Hypermedia Table 3-3. Evaluation of Hierarchical Styles for Network-based Hypermedia Table 3-4. Evaluation of Mobile Code Styles for Network-based Hypermedia Table 3-5. Evaluation of Peer-to-Peer Styles for Network-based Hypermedia Table 3-6. Evaluation Summary Table 5-1.
REST Data Elements Table 5-2.
REST Connectors Table 5-3.
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