"romney" wrote:"jverhaeg@redhat.com" wrote:
My understanding of what constitutes a RESTful application may be incorrect, but I understand this to be more of an approach to how the interface is designed between the client and server, regardless of the underlying web technology.
I believe that you are right in this definition."jverhaeg@redhat.com" wrote:
I'm not sure whether I understand why FLEX doesn't support REST (or why it's a problem in particular with Atom pub). Could you expound?
From my understanding Flex does not support all the required http methods, especially put and delete, which is required by Rest/Atom Pub based solutions. Another issue is that it is not possible to extract HTTP status code from a response if anything goes wrong. However, I believe that there exist projects which have implemented alternative http supporting client which might solve the indicated issues.
Anyway, I should probably have stated in my previously response that if we go with the Flex solution we will have to investigate various solutions to implement e.g. the Atom Pub.