Could you guys also let me know what is the plan for the REST service implementation ? Is anything done on that side ? I'm getting ready to help on implementing the REST service using DAS/SDO if people haven't started yet. Are we going with a customer rest service scenario ?
- Luciano On 9/7/06, ant elder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
How are you going with this Sreelatha? Are you still looking at it? Do you need any help, I'd be happy to help if you need anything? Did you see the C++ guys have done something like what we're talking about here now: http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/ws-tuscany-dev/200609.mbox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ...ant On 8/24/06, Sreelatha S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Ant, > > As I am still trying to learn about the REST implementation, based of > what you have mentioned below I tried to work on the skeleton classes > required for the REST binding on Tuscany, by closely following the REST > support in Axis 2 and the Axis2Binding classes in Tuscany. > I have created RESTServiceServlet class which does something very similar > to what the AxisRESTServlet does in Axis2.Which is processing of GET and > POST requests. > > I however, had a few questions: > > The Axis2Binding extends from the BindingBuilderExtension which is of > the type WebServiceBinding, is it appropriate for the RESTBinding class also > to extend the BindingBuilderExtension of the type WebServiceBinding? I am > asking this as I have the understanding that REST based service is quite > different when compared to a WebService. > What should we consider as a RESTService and a RESTReference ?In other > words how is a RESTService defined and how should we create one, how are its > operations exposed, assuming that we are not using a WSDL as in the case of > a Webservice. > > I appreciate any help in furthering my understanding on this. Thanks. > > ant elder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Axis2 also has some built in REST support, and as we already have an > Axis2 > binding it would be relatively easy to get a Tuscany REST binding going > using Axis2. All that you need to do is change the Tuscany code to use the > Axis2 REST servlet instead of the SOAP one, and change the code where we > set > up the Axis2 config to set some flags to enable the REST support. With a > bit > of refactoring of the existing Axis2 binding and changing a few things > from > private to protected you could probably get something going by subclassing > the existing Axis2 binding with minimal new code. I think we should make a > better, more 'RESTful' binding than this in the long run, but this > approach > would be an easy first start. > > ...ant > > On 8/22/06, Oisin Hurley wrote: > > > > > REST is a very generic term, and I think it's more like a resource/ > > > service > > > naming pattern (URL/URI). When we say REST bindings, what are we > > > expecting > > > as the REST Service ? > > > > The resource part is really important, but the small interface part is > > important too, as are the expected behaviours of the interface: i.e., > > GET is idempotent, PUT will replace a resource, POST will perform a > > partial update of the state of a resource. > > > > IMHO the first place we could go is an XML over HTTP binding and some > > kind > > of 'generic' processing method in the service (see [0] for an example > > of what's RESTful with JAX-WS, which might prompt some ideas). > > > > cheers > > --oh > > > > [0] http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/WebServices/restful/ > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > --------------------------------- > Yahoo! Messenger with Voice. Make PC-to-Phone Calls to the US (and 30+ > countries) for 2ยข/min or less. >
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