Third International Workshop on RESTful Design (WS-REST 2012)

Over the past few years, the discussion between the two major architectural styles for designing and implementing Web services, the RPC-oriented approach and the resource-oriented approach, has been mainly held outside of traditional research communities. Mailing lists, forums and developer communities have seen long and fascinating debates around the assumptions, strengths, and weaknesses of these two approaches. The Representational State Transfer (REST) is an architectural style and as such can be applied in different ways, extended by additional constraints, or specialized with specific interaction patterns. The Third International Workshop on RESTful Design (WS-REST 2012) aims to involve researchers in the debate by providing a premier forum for discussing research ideas, novel applications and results centered around the resource-oriented style of Web services. The WWW conference provides the ideal setting to host this third edition of the workshop dedicated to research on the architectural style underlying the Web.