Towards Interoperability to the Implementation of RESTful Web Services: A Model Driven Approach

Nowadays, a issue that has been gaining relevance is the RESTful Web services technology. RESTful has been more prominent than SOAP due to the interoperability gained by the Web support. Nevertheless, the implementation tier of the RESTful Web Services can be developed with various programming languages and with different specifications, frameworks, and plugins. This diversity of ways to implement RESTful Web services reduces the interoperability proposed by this technology and prevents reuse. In this paper, we present a model-driven approach to implement RESTful Web Services. By the use of concerns separation, modeling on different abstraction levels and by the use of transformation rules we solve the interoperability lack.