Hi John, For more information about OData in general I suggest a look at www.odata.org (especially http://www.odata.org/introduction/). As short summary OData (and so Olingo) provides a uniform way for CRUD scenarios (with queries) on our data using REST practices (some say a SQL for the restful web).
And for your problem with the git repo I can try to help if you write me the failure you get when you call: "git clone https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator-olingo-odata2.git"; Kind regards, Michael On 09.10.13 07:05, "john pradeep" <[email protected]> wrote: >Hello, >I came across olingo as i was browsing through the incubator projects to >pick one so that I can contribute to it. >olingo seemed to be like a fresh start but I couldn't quite get the >problem >domain for olingo by going through the website! I could understand that >it's an implementation of OData specification (but the specification is >very verbose for beginners). > >Can anyone point me to some content which explains the need for OData and >what problems does it solve which is not possible using other >technologies/protocols like REST. > >Also I couldn't get the git repo url to clone. would be good if someone >helps me setup the codebase. > > >Thanks, >John
