Hi Santiago
On 20/07/11 19:07, Santiago Pericas-Geertsen wrote:
> Hi Experts,
>
> The wiki page on Hypermedia / HATEOAS has been updated after processing
> all the feedback received on the declarative hyperlinking approach and
> related topics.
>
> After going through all the e-mail threads, I now believe it would be
> useful to divide the hyperlinking problem into two parts: structural
> links and transitional links (I came up with these terms, feel free to
> dislike them :). See [1] for a discussion.
I like it,
>
> It appears that supporting transitional links is easier, and a simple,
> non-declarative (annotation free) approach is described in [1]. Note
> that transitional links are handled completely at the resource
> (controller) level and are conveyed as Link Headers (my personal
> preference). Support in the Client API is also straightforward (and
> similar to Restfulie).
>
> Structural links are more complex to support given their interaction
> with other parts of the system (readers, writers, JAXB, etc), and given
> their impact on the model. A declarative, annotation-based approach may
> be the way to go, but there are a number of issues that need to be
> sorted out.
>
> In summary, [1] is an incomplete story, but wanted to direct your
> attention to the new content to help us drive future discussions.
>
Sounds good - please add more info to the Structural Links (a minor typo
is there on the wiki) when you get a chance
Thanks, Sergey
> -- Santiago
>
> [1] http://java.net/projects/jax-rs-spec/pages/Hypermedia