Roy Fielding
Roy T. Fielding (born
1965) is one of the principal authors of the
HTTP specification and a frequently-cited authority on
computer network architecture.
Fielding was born in
Laguna Beach,
California,
U.S.A., and received a doctorate from the
University of California, Irvine in
2000.
Architectural Styles and the Design of Network-based Software Architectures, Fielding's doctoral dissertation, describes
Representational State Transfer (REST) as a key architectural principle of the
world wide web, and received a large amount of attention. People now frequently hold up REST as an approach to developing
web services, and an alternative to other distributed-computing specifications such as
CORBA. Fielding has also been heavily involved in the development of
HTML and
Uniform Resource Identifiers, was a co-founder of the
Apache HTTP Server project and is a member of the
OpenSolaris Community Advisory Board. He currently works as chief scientist at Day Software in
Irvine, California.
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Fielding's personal web site*
Architectural Styles and the Design of Network-based Software Architectures, University of California, Irvine, 2000
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Day Software
