On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 14:58, <webp...@tigris.org> wrote: > I am evaluating Restlet 2.0 vs. Spring 3.0 for a new project that is starting > soon. I have done a lot of reading on the website and have written a couple > of small programs with Restlet 2.0M6 to get the feel for it. I am looking to > hear from people who have been using it into production about their > configuration choices.
We're running 1.1, but my answers might still be helpful. We have 5 complex apps in production. > 1) What connector are you using with Restlet in production? We've been using the Jetty connector for a few years now, and we're very happy with it. > I very much like the idea of not having to run inside of a web container, but > I am not sure from the list of available connectors which are the best for > production, and what are the pros and con's of each connector. Any advice > from the community on this is appreciated. We run our apps as standalone apps — no servlet container — and I'm very happy with this approach. We use the Tanuki Service Wrapper to run them as Windows services. > 2) How are you dealing with Caching on the server side? Mostly Memcache, some OSCache. I prefer Memcache, and after trying out EHCache, I think it's better than OSCache. > 3) Are you finding that the Services / Data Access Layers in Standard Web > Apps don’t apply in the Restlet World? I didn't have a lot of experience with Java web development before I started using Restlet, so I'm not sure what a "Service" is in a "Standard" web app. But I have used a Data Access Object in one of my Restlet apps, and that's worked out just fine. > Given that we are exposing resources and no longer exposing services and > functionality, do you find that the need for Data Access Objects is gone? As > i think about what the app will do, I keep noticing that it is easier to put > the data access for a resource into the Restlet instead of making a Data > Access Object. After all PUT, POST, and DELETE will do something to the > persistent state of the resource and GET will just query it. Thoughts about > this from the community are highly appreciated. This is highly specific to your application. > 4) What does your Restlet production setup look like? Can you elaborate? What kind of information are you looking for? -- Avi Flax » Partner » Arc90 » http://arc90.com ➙ Have you tried Kindling‽ http://kindlingapp.com ------------------------------------------------------ http://restlet.tigris.org/ds/viewMessage.do?dsForumId=4447&dsMessageId=2424007
