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[jsr339-experts] Re: client revisions

From: Bill Burke <bburke_at_redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2011 15:46:47 -0400

On 7/6/11 2:27 PM, Guilherme Silveira wrote:
>> If I had to choose using a string "PATCH" over writing your extension, I'd
>> pick the string every day.
> As I mentioned, if type safe is not important, go for Strings.
> On the same way of thinking, If hypermedia is not important, the
> client api will be a nice wrapper for Apache Commons... yet another
> http library.
>

I want to see better hypermedia support. I would love to see JAXB
improved so we could write some nice hypermedia features. Maybe we
could get the Jackson guys in here, develop a JSON API with nice
hypermedia support. Then we could avoid the whole JAXB, JDK red tape
and politics...

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Bill Burke
JBoss, a division of Red Hat
http://bill.burkecentral.com