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Tutorial: Web-Oriented Architecture: Putting the Web Back in Web Services
11 November 2008
 
Nicholas Gall   Daniel Sholler   Anthony Bradley  

Gartner defines the term "Web-oriented architecture" to refer to a substyle of service-oriented architecture based on the Web. WOA's goal is to transform traditional application-to-application integration from a "rat's nest" of specialized interfaces into a generic web of globally linked hypermedia.




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Table of Contents


    
 Analysis

1.0
    
 The Origin of WOA

1.1
    
 The Definition of WOA
2.0
    
 Understanding REST

2.1
    
 The Key REST Constraints
3.0
    
 The Essence of WOA: Generic Interfaces

3.1
    
 Identification of Resources
3.2
    
 Manipulation of Resources Through Representations
3.3
    
 Self-Descriptive Messages
3.4
    
 Hypermedia as the Engine of Application State
3.5
    
 Application Neutrality
4.0
    
 Generic IFaPs

4.1
    
 Generic Identifiers
4.2
    
 Generic Representations
4.3
    
 Generic Protocol Operations
5.0
    
 Incremental Specialization Requires Deep Business Expertise
6.0
    
 Recapitulating the Definition of WOA

    
 Recommended Reading


List of Tables


Table 1.  
 WOA vs. WS-* Comparison
 



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