Regarding SPI: IMHO at least the threading model (ExecutorService) should be pluggable and so well defined.
A client API could and will be used on server side as well - so threading and scalability will be an issue.
On 07.04.2011, at 21:10, Markus KARG wrote:
> Actually I think for users it would be of more interest to have a high level
> API. IMHO least users in the first step will actually want to declare using
> a particular http stack, but just want to get started most easily with a
> stable solution. It's a benefit of your framework to also provide this
> pluggability, but I don't see that it must be part of the JAX-RS standard.
> You could just support it "under the hood" for example by setting system
> properties etc. What the users want from my understanding is a fluent API
> that allows them to talk to any http based REST service. What technical way
> this is done is of low interest. Proof: Nobody asked to ever add such a
> plugability into JAX-RS 1 (server side) so far. So why should one ask for
> that on the client side?
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Bill Burke [mailto:bburke_at_redhat.com]
>> Sent: Mittwoch, 6. April 2011 23:09
>> To: jsr339-experts_at_jax-rs-spec.java.net
>> Subject: [jsr339-experts] Client framework
>>
>> i'd really like to start the ball rolling on this. I guess we'll be
>> deriving from the Jersey low-level API?
>>
>> IMO, some thought on the Exception hierarchy should be mapped out here
>> as well concurrently (JAX_RS_SPEC-48). Also, in resteasy we have an
>> SPI
>> for plugging in various HTTP libraries for the client API to run on top
>> of (Apache HTTP Client 3.x, 4.x, java.net.URL) that maybe we should
>> define within JAX-RS as well.
>>
>> Finally, my users are very fond of our proxy framework [1]. Basically
>> it allows you to use the exact same JAX-RS annotations on the client
>> side so that you can map method invocations into an HTTP request. In
>> most cases you can re-use the same interface on both the client and
>> server side.
>>
>> [1]
>> http://docs.jboss.org/resteasy/docs/2.0.0.GA/userguide/html/RESTEasy_Cl
>> ient_Framework.html
>> --
>> Bill Burke
>> JBoss, a division of Red Hat
>> http://bill.burkecentral.com
>
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