RestFS: Resources and Services are Filesystems, Too

Joseph P. Kaylor; Konstantin Läufer; George K. Thiruvathukal

doi:10.1145/1967428.1967439

RestFS: Resources and Services are Filesystems, Too

Joseph P. Kaylor, Konstantin Läufer, George K. Thiruvathukal

Department of Computer Science

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We have designed and implemented RestFS, a software frame-work that provides a uniform, configurable connector layerfor mapping remote web-based resources to local filesystem-based resources, recognizing the similarity between thesetwo types of resources. Such mappings enable programmaticaccess to a resource, as well as composition of two or moreresources, through the local operating system’s standardfilesystem application programming interface (API), script-able file-based command-line utilities, and inter-process com-munication (IPC) mechanisms. The framework supports au-tomatic and manual authentication. We include several ex-amples intended to show the utility and practicality of ourframework.

Original language	American English
Journal	Computer Science: Faculty Publications and Other Works
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/1967428.1967439
State	Published - Mar 1 2011

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