Re: [jboss-as7-dev] Detyped and REST configuration API

On 11/30/10 12:03 AM, Brian Stansberry wrote: > In general, my concern about the approach you're outlining is it feels > RPCish and not RESTful. I'm actually more comfortable with RPC, but we > have a requirement to provide a REST interface and I'm concerned about > straying so far from REST principles that the REST interface becomes an > unmaintainable hack. I think we have to look at the context of that requirement. The whole point of it is to allow people writing perl,python,etc scripts to control the domain. So really its a requirement for RPC over HTTP, not so much "REST" from the architectural purity perspective. Note that all of our other interfaces (which are arguably more important[CLI, gui, etc]) represent things in a command oriented manner. I really think we should go for simplicity here and just design a simple Javaish detyped command oriented API. IMO it will be much much less work.