[seam-dev] Re: Seam/RESTEasy integration

[Pete Muir]

On 4 Mar 2009, at 18:45, Dan Allen wrote:

>
>
> JSF 2.0 will have bookmarkable URLs, which are used, for example, to  
> retrieve a record by ID. In JSF 2.1 we intend to add page actions,  
> which may change the state of the server with a GET, but those are  
> discretionary cases to adapt to an action-oriented world (sometimes,  
> it just has to be done).
>
>
> Why can't POST be used?  Sys admins and caches don't understand an  
> action-oriented world, but they do know the difference between GET  
> and POST.
>
> I don't think we are disagreeing. You have to use GET + action that  
> changes state for something like an activation URL in an e-mail. In  
> this case, you don't have control over the client to make it a POST.  
> But like I said, this is really up to the developer. The point is,  
> JSF 2.0 starts to make the distinction possible...and correct by  
> default. In JSF 1.2, it was POST or hit the road Jack.
>

I'm guessing this was Bill's point around adding another method of  
specifying the method than the Http header when the client doesn't  
have good support for http methods.

> -Dan
>
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