A Java API for REST
There is a new JCP aiming to create a Java (TM) API for RESTful Web Services
. The proposal was sumitted by Sun and is supported (among others by) Jérôme Louvel, creator of the RESTlet Java framework.
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: provides a code example of what he thinks the API might look like. Looks good from my point of view
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. The proposal was sumitted by Sun and is supported (among others by) Jérôme Louvel, creator of the RESTlet Java framework.
Interesting Commentary:
Pete Layey:
- I hope they don’t screw it up (see JAX-WS).
: provides a code example of what he thinks the API might look like. Looks good from my point of view
- It seems to me the people who have a better idea of what to do are the Cocoon folk and Team Netkernel, not the WS projects. Yet I suspect it will be the latter is the most interested, because clearly REST is winning the battle for hearts and minds, at least outside the enterprise. The trouble is, work on WS too long and you get corrupted, you start thinking of methods and operations, not remote state.
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- First, we asked why he (Marc Hadley) feels a REST-specific JSR is needed, i.e. why Servlets and JSPs are not enough. We also questioned the spec’s wording about low-level APIs, and how one would go about developing RESTful web apps without a deep understanding of HTTP issues and design patterns. Marc replied that while the current APIs provide broad support for HTTP, they leave a lot of work to the developer that could be automated in a higher level API
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