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. Computer engineers frequently hold up REST as an approach to developing
web services, as an alternative to other distributed-computing specifications such as
SOAP. Fielding has also been heavily involved in the development of
HTML and
Uniform Resource Identifiers. Fielding co-founded the
Apache HTTP Server project and was a member of the interim
OpenSolaris Boards until he resigned from the community in 2008. It was "designed to match the efficiency of the
REST architectural style". ==References==