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

[Jason T. Greene]

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.

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Jason T. Greene
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