Dynamic Provisioning of REST APIs for Model Management

TL;DR

This paper presents a RESTful service approach for efficient, scalable model management in web-based modeling tools, enabling modeling-as-a-service for various model types.

Contribution

It introduces a RESTful model management service that is adaptable to any model type and supports scalable, stateless interactions for web-based modeling platforms.

Findings

Provides a RESTful, scalable model management solution

Supports interaction with any model type

Enables modeling-as-a-service in web environments

Abstract

Model-Driven Engineering (MDE) is a software engineering methodology focusing on models as primary artifacts. In the last years, the emergence of Web technologies has led to the development of Web-based modeling tools and model-based approaches for the Web that offer a web-based environment to create and edit models or model-based low-code solutions. A common requirement when developing Web-based modeling tools is to provide a fast and efficient way for model management, and this is particularly a hot topic in model-based system engineering. However, the number of approaches offering RESTful services for model management is still limited. Among the alternatives for developing distributed services, there is a growing interest in the use of RESTful services. In this paper, we present an approach to provide RESTful services for model management that can be used to interact with any kind of model and can be used to build a modeling platform providing modeling-as-a-service. The approach follows the REST principles to provide a stateless and scalable service.