The Web of Things meets Prof. Cesare Pautasso

For those who live in Switzerland (or not to far away) we will be presenting our work in the WOT at the University of Lugano on Thursday, March 26th.

Besides the fact that Lugano is the sunniest place in Switzerland it is for us a pleasure to be invited by Prof. Pautasso. His work on REST architectures and especially on comparing and contrasting REST with WS-* (i.e. SOAP, WSDL, and the like) service has been quite inspiring for us. If I had to select one paper in this field it would certainly be that one: RESTful Web Services vs. Big Web Services: Making the Right Architectural Decision, a paper containing a lot of takeaways in terms of what type of architecture should be used for what purpose.

One of the conclusions of that paper is that REST architectures seem to be more adapted for ad-hoc and tactical applications, such as user mashups. Which leads me to Cesare’s more recent and extremely inspiring (for me a least) focus: Web 2.0 Mashups, like this recent workshop he organized with non-computer-scientists (i.e. normal :-)) people:

Inspiring work since we are currently building a number of prototypes going towards end-user mashups based on real-world services: what if I could mashup a service offered by my plants with a service offered by my central heating so that the plants can decide on the adequate room temperature while I’m away?

Anyway, in a word like in thousands we really are looking forward to meet Cesare, and we’ll update you on the outcome of the talk and the discussions!