Restlet - 02/21/12
Overview of REST
Wikipedia is a great resource
Richardson Maturity Model
`Different levels of rest to reach the - Glory of REST
Overview of Reslet
Summary is a lot like Spring
An implementation, not a spec (to contrast jee)
Jackon/JSON auto binding
XML/JAXB binding
Unclear if its automagic like jackson
GWT Support
Cloud deployment
android
google app engine
etc
'Client' support
Java calling other REST resources
Hello World App
Extension based framework
has annotations also, but extension is required
Starts a 'Server'
can do WAR deployment, loses functionality, unsure what functionality
@Get for binding
@Get("json") for content negotiation
Stutter App
YATC (Yet Another Twitter Clone)
Interface defines @Get, @Post etc
I like that idea
Call Start Server
@override createInboundRoot() {, Routers that define URI's and classes to service URI's, router.attach(BASE + "/user/{username}", UserServiceResource.class)
UserServerResource extends ServerResource
static method getAttribute("username")
use New Reference(getReference()) to get the URL to this resource, This works because its extending a class and you register classes to urls, but useful in an abstract sense of 'Reference' if its not just a String
Automatic Jackson mapping, pseudo XML mapping
May be better w/ JAXB or others
Rest Client
Using pojos to call interfaces
ClientResource.create(BASE + "/users", UserListManager.class), Rest interface to call .addUser()
