Seven challenges for RESTful transaction models

Resumen

The REpresentational State Transfer (REST) architectural style describes
the design principles that made the World Wide Web scalable
and the same principles can be applied in enterprise context to
do loosely coupled and scalable application integration. In recent
years, RESTful services are gaining traction in the industry and are
commonly used as a simpler alternative to SOAP Web Services.
However, one of the main drawbacks of RESTful services is
the lack of standard mechanisms to support advanced quality-ofservice
requirements that are common to enterprises. Transaction
processing is one of the essential features of enterprise information
systems and several transaction models have been proposed in the
past years to fulfill the gap of transaction processing in RESTful
services. The goal of this paper is to analyze the state-of-the-art
RESTful transaction models and identify the current challenges.