A 90% RESTful Group Communication Service
Tadeusz Kobus, Paweł Tomasz Wojciechowski · Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science · 2010
In this paper we describe a 90 % RESTful group communication ser-vice that we have developed for Web applications. Our system is based on Spread—a popular group communication toolkit which delivers many useful programming abstractions, such as various reliable ordered broad-casts; they can be used, e.g. for implementing resilient servers by repli-cation. Contrary to Spread and many other such systems available as libraries of programming languages, we represent group communication abstractions as resources on the Web, addressed by URIs. To our best knowledge, this is the first approach to engineering group communica-tion systems in this way.