Hi, On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 6:31 PM, Stefan Guggisberg <stefan.guggisb...@gmail.com> wrote: > as some of you may have noticed i've started work on my own > MicroKernel proposal a while ago in the jackrabbit sandbox. > > although the project is in a very early stage i wanted to share my work > with you.
Good stuff! I see people are already starting to collaborate on this. > as always, questions & feedback are welcome. The MicroKernel interface [1] reads more like a REST than a Java API. I guess that's the intention, but I question why one would ever want to pass around serialized JSON strings around in a Java application. A Java client would just parse the string again, leading to unnecessary serialize/parse rounds whenever an API call is made. So, assuming we are designing a REST API (which seems like a good idea), instead of defining the API as a Java interface, wouldn't it make more sense to directly with a HTTP binding or alternatively a more abstract API definition? Another question: Why would we ever want to build our own JSON parsing and serialization code? Just use one of the existing libraries out there. [1] http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/jackrabbit/sandbox/microkernel/src/main/java/org/apache/jackrabbit/mk/api/MicroKernel.java BR, Jukka Zitting
