[dna-issues] [JBoss JIRA] Updated: (DNA-55) REST-based API for remote access and usage

[Randall Hauch (JIRA)]

     [ https://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/DNA-55?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Randall Hauch updated DNA-55:
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    Fix Version/s: 0.4
                       (was: Future Releases)
         Priority: Major  (was: Minor)


I thought this post about enunciate (http://enunciate.codehaus.org/) was interesting, considering the recent discussion about a RESTful API for DNA: http://blogs.citytechinc.com/sjohnson/?p=30

> REST-based API for remote access and usage
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>
>                 Key: DNA-55
>                 URL: https://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/DNA-55
>             Project: DNA
>          Issue Type: Feature Request
>          Components: Server, Web Application
>            Reporter: Randall Hauch
>             Fix For: 0.4
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> Create a DNA server that uses a REST-based API, allowing client applications to access and use the repository using HTTP for protocol/transport.  
> AtomPub is also very interesting (as it is RESTful) for a message structure, but it doesn't currently support hierarchical data.  And although one could build a repository to be flatter (or at least exposed though collections; see how Bento does it: http://www.filemaker.com/bento/), it may be difficult to have no way of interacting with the hierarchical data.  Bento and iTunes both show how powerful user-defined collections (and "smart collections") can be, so maybe adopting a collection-only approach would work (at least for remote access).

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