"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.
The JAX-RS (a.k.a JSR-311 The JavaTM API for RESTful Web Services) and its implementations like JBoss RestEasy, Jersey plus Apache Abdera
are (high performance implementation of Atom Syndication Format (RFC 4287) and Atom Publishing Protocol (RFC 5023) specifications) and Rome (RSS 0.90, RSS 0.91 Netscape, RSS 0.91 Userland, RSS 0.92, RSS 0.93, RSS 0.94, RSS 1.0, RSS 2.0, Atom 0.3, and Atom 1.0), will make an implementation of DNA publishing server as simple as possible.
See also
https://www.jboss.org/community/docs/DOC-12952