Why is the Web loosely coupled? A multi-faceted metric for service design

WWW'09 - Proceedings of the 18th International World Wide Web Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 911-920

  Pautasso, Cesare ^a   Wilde, Erik ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LUGANO   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

HTTP; Loose coupling; REST; RPC; SOA; Tight coupling; Web services; WS *

Indexed keywords

LOOSE COUPLINGS; REST; RPC; SOA; TIGHT COUPLING;

WEB SERVICES;

HTTP;

EID: 84865653427     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1526709.1526832     Document Type: Conference Paper

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