Hi Evgeny, As I said, I don't believe in this "REST stack" either, but still, the requirement is here. Almost all applications today include at least some AJAX, share data with other webapps, and even sometimes propvide desktop clients and the like (Adobe Air, WebStart), or mix everything in pages ! So clearly, you need a way to invoke your webapp from a programmatic, remote client.
For RPC only, sure you already have many fwks and tools, from the suckish HTTP-based things to fast and furious middleware like CORBA or ICE. But you don't have an ORB inside your web browser unfortunately, and some suckers invented firewalls. So you stick with what you have. And again, Stripes makes the whole HTTP crap much more pleasant and convenient to use. Using the FatClientInterceptor approach, it's easy to open your webapp to other programs, including in-browser JavaScript/XmlHTTPRequest things. So the discussion isn't about turning Stripes into a RPC broker. It's more about "how to allow other programs to benefit of some code I've written for a human being only". Screen scraping is not an answer of course... :-P Cheers Remi On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 12:17 PM, Evgeny Shepelyuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi ! > > Why is there so many attempts to re-invent the wheel and turn Stripes into > general purpose REST(whatever) RPC framework. > Instead of using Stripes where it fits the best - as web presentation > framework. > Stripes now has "clean URL "support and can evelove that way to _emulate_ > REST URLs but not emulate RESTfule web service functionality. > There's few projects dedicated to provide complete REST support and > intended to server as basis for RESTful WS. > REST architecture ain't only GET / PUT / POST verb support but also > character encoding, content-type processing and much more. > Is Stripes team ready to put all efforts into complete REST framework ? > > > -- > Best Regards > Evgeny K. Shepelyuk > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Sponsored by: SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards: VOTE NOW! > Studies have shown that voting for your favorite open source project, > along with a healthy diet, reduces your potential for chronic lameness > and boredom. Vote Now at http://www.sourceforge.net/community/cca08 > _______________________________________________ > Stripes-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/stripes-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sponsored by: SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards: VOTE NOW! Studies have shown that voting for your favorite open source project, along with a healthy diet, reduces your potential for chronic lameness and boredom. Vote Now at http://www.sourceforge.net/community/cca08 _______________________________________________ Stripes-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/stripes-users
