[seam-dev] Re: Seam/RESTEasy integration

[Bill Burke]

Not sure, here's some guesses on what making JSF "RESTFul" means:

* Unique URIs to each "page"
* don't overload the meaning of HTTP methods.  i.e. don't change state 
of server with a GET
* No sessions, stateless

Or maybe people just want nice URI templating and JAX-RS injection 
annotations.  I don't know. Which isn't persay, "REST", but still nice 
to have.

Dan Allen 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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