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

[Brian Stansberry]

On 12/2/10 1:11 PM, Jason T. Greene wrote:
> 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.
>

Yeah, I think that's the consensus we're coming to.

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Brian Stansberry
Principal Software Engineer
JBoss by Red Hat