[seam-dev] Re: Seam/RESTEasy integration

[Emmanuel Bernard]

Question for you can I navigate a JSF app. Keep my borwser open, go on  
vacations, come back and click the next link and get it rendered?
If yes, that's RESTable
If not that's not RESTable (for the purists anyways).
You need to think Microsoft architecture back in '98

On  Mar 4, 2009, at 14:41, Dan Allen wrote:

>
>
> On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 2:23 PM, Emmanuel Bernard <emmanuel at hibernate.org 
> > wrote:
> REST kinda mandates to have a stateless application design. Ie the  
> necessary state is always passed through each request. No sure JSF  
> can cope with that.
>
> Why not? JSF's state management is only for the UI ( the component  
> tree). JSF always marshalls the data back and forth through POST. So  
> really if you put the UI aside, it is stateless. There is some gray  
> area, but I think it's feasible to use JSF this way.
>
> -Dan
>
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