[seam-dev] Re: Seam/RESTEasy integration

[Solomon Duskis]

Aside from the ideological REST concerns, one of the more pragmatic things
that I was hoping to get out of an integration with RESTEasy is a simple way
to invoke AJAX/JSon requests from the browser that are implemented using
RESTEasy.  <your favorite AJAX library> allows you to easily read a remote
JSon object (GET) or create a JSon object in the browser and send it across
the wire (POST).  RESTEasy makes processing those JSon requests a snap.

I'm not quite sure how that fits into JSF and Seam, but that's where I see
the biggest win for RESTEasy in web development.

-Solomon

On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 12:29 PM, Dan Allen <dan.j.allen at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> I am working on Seam+RESTEasy integration as a part of my university
>> thesis. I am focusing more on new features rather than bug fixing as this is
>> more interesting for university however I was fixing some bugs as well. The
>> plan is to implement following things:
>>        * REST API for application framework - I am working on a component
>> that exposes CRUD API to manipulate database entities (using Seam's home and
>> query components)- I have some working prototypes already, working on
>> details now.
>>        * Exception mapping in pages.xml
>>        * Facelets XHTML mapping
>> Furthermore, I am planning on creating a sample application demonstrating
>> Seam+RESTEasy integration. It will be a simple todo app exposing REST API.
>
>
> Jozef, while you are thinking about how to expand this integration, could
> you record some thoughts about how JSF might leverage REST. One of the
> features that has been long requested of JSF is that it support REST. The
> problem is, we have to first figure out what that even means. Maybe it isn't
> even relevant. Either way, if there is a sensible integration, we (Red Hat)
> want to be the ones that figure it out and propose it to the JSF EG for JSF
> 2.1.
>
> It may well be that the JSF REST merely consists of defining mappings in
> the PDL (i.e., Facelets).
>
> If anyone else has any thoughts, feel free to share them.
>
> -Dan
>
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