Article:		The REST of the Web
Subject:		Dedicated solutions
Date:		2006-05-11 08:55:40
From:		Karadoc
Since the writing of this article, some dedicated solutions were released. Check the Restlet project: http://www.restlet.org It is a pure REST framework for Java. It is bundled with FreeMarker (similar to Velocity used in the article) and Jetty for the HTTP connector. Check also Gomba, XINS and NetKernel.

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• Dedicated solutions
  2006-05-11 14:28:00  jrbriggs [View]
  
  
  Hi
  
  Yes I came across both Restlet and XINS a while ago. I remain unsure whether Restlets really add enough to the mix to be interesting, given that one can do everything with a basic servlet plus additional libraries. But then I'm deeply suspicious of anything advertising itself as a "framework", so perhaps that's just me. ;-)
  
  XINS is not REST, despite the fact that it advertises its "REST" protocol. Based on my quick double-check of the documentation, it uses GET and POST, combined with a parameter to indicate the function. So basically RPC, rather than REST.
  
  Regards,
  Jason
• Dedicated solutions
  2006-09-18 13:43:37  czerwonka [View]
  
  
  REST is not a standard and if the implementation is based on web resources, then it's REST afaic.
• Dedicated solutions
  2006-09-24 02:23:19  jrbriggs [View]
  
  
  Not quite, IMO. One of the aspects of REST is uniform interfaces that apply to all resources (ref: http://rest.blueoxen.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ShortSummaryOfRest) -- given that restriction, a resource that can be interfaced via a wide variety of verbs (ala RPC), which are different from the verbs of another resource, doesn't satisfy the requirements as I see them.