| Re: [eclipse-incubator-e4-dev] [resources] REST (Representational State Transfer) |
Hi Michael, My apologies...I was not able to attend the call this morning.Thanks for the REST pointers. Two points I would like to make about RESTful approaches:
1) Although IMHO a fine approach for implementing protocols, REST itself doesn't really deal with issues of asynchrony at the client's Filesystem/API level. 2) We've used/are using REST APIs to implement providers of some of the ECF APIs (e.g. Twitter's server API is REST-ful...and we use that to implement a Twitter provider for the ECF presence API...which is an asynchronous API). This is just to say that given the ECF provider approach, RESTful protocols can/are used alongside others.
Thanks, Scott Michael Scharf wrote:
In the call today some asked for some links to an introduction to REST. Wikipedia is a good starting point: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representational_State_Transfer Some important attributes of the RESTful approach is: * Client-server * Stateless * Cacheable * Layered Here is a podcast (~1h) introducing the REST concepts (and some links): http://www.se-radio.net/podcast/2008-05/episode-98-stefan-tilkov-rest e.g.: http://www.infoq.com/articles/rest-introduction Michael _______________________________________________ eclipse-incubator-e4-dev mailing list eclipse-incubator-e4-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/eclipse-incubator-e4-dev