Research On REST-style Logistics Oriented Spatial Information Service Platform

The modernization of logistics management depends on Spatial Information Services. However, many logistics management information systems and spatial information system can not effectively integrated, old industry resources are not well integrated, resources can not be shared and collective advantage can not be played.REST is a new style of Web Services, it will prepare the network to share any information as resources, and each resource is given a unified identifier, so that client can use these identifiers to access, operate resources and to get the representation of the resource. In this paper, by analyzing the characteristics of REST-style architecture and the requirements from different logistical applications, suggests that using REST-style to realize logistics information service platform, so that logistics management information system and spatial information system can effectively integrated and the spatial information can be Shared and reused. The main contents include:(1) In this paper, through analysis and comparison of REST-style Web services and other distributed computing platforms, summarized the strengths and weaknesses of their. In particular, the characteristics of SOAP based Web Services and those of REST-style Web Services are compared and contrasted, this article holds that the framework based on REST-style Web services are more in line with the Web standards, but also close to the basis of the characteristics of the network itself, suitable for GIS Web Services published.(2) Based on the analyses of the requirements from different logistical applications, suggests that using REST-style to realize logistics information service platform, the purpose is introduce the latest technology, such as REST, RIA, and advanced ideas into logistics oriented spatial information platform for the entire structure, so that spatial information technology and logistics management are combined better. (3) Developed an experimental system, through the experimental system to verify the feasibility of this framework.