Profiling REST Services with Advent of Aspect Oriented Modelling

Abstract

REST, a communication protocol is used for communicating via APIs. It is widely used today for intercommunication among the services and the users. However, it does have the constraint of constructing servers to be stateless. Stateless servers are restricted from storing any information about the clients. Hence profiling such resources becomes a serious issue, as session is not retained. AOP enables implementing cross cutting concerns to be applied to applications without disturbing their business logic. This paper aims to overcome this challenge of resources profiling using REST and AOP concepts. It presents a plug and play approach for profiling REST resources using Aspect Oriented Programming.