Extracting RESTful services from Web applications

Abstract

The Web contains large amount of information and services primarily intended for human users. A Web application offers high user experience and responsiveness. A user performs different task, such as reserving flight tickets from a Web application. A task is a set of activities required for a user to achieve a goal. Similar tasks are often used in different websites. Therefore, facilitating their reuse would improve development productivity and ease maintenance of Web applications. However, designing a reusable Web application component is often neglected by Web developers due to the pressure for the time-to-market. To circumvent this limitation, we propose an approach to interactively identify tasks from Web applications and represent these tasks as services.