[jsr-314-open] JSF and REST

[Pete Muir]

We recently had (another) discussion on REST on the seam-dev mailing
list and Bill (who has written the JBoss JAX-RS impl) said this, which
I thought was quite interesting for some JSF future version.

Begin forwarded message:

> There's some established workarounds for overloading POST as some
> clients can't do PUT, DELETE, etc.  Like a specific header or query
> parameter.  I just haven't implemented these yet.
>
> Pete Muir wrote:
>> Bill, agreed on all these things - JSF2 no longer overloads POST
>> for GET (which it did previously), adds good support for
>> statelessness and unique URIs for a resource through page actions.
>> However I don't think full REST is possible in JSF (not overloading
>> POST for PUT/DELETE).

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