Hi,
You, and others on this list, may be interested in reading an aticle [1]
by Steve Vinoski on the uniform interface constraint. It gives good
rational for why this constraint is important.
Paul.
[1]
http://www.computer.org/portal/site/dsonline/menuitem.9ed3d9924aeb0dcd82ccc6716bbe36ec/index.jsp?&pName=dso_level1&path=dsonline/2008/02&file=w1tow.xml&xsl=article.xsl&;jsessionid=HCwvp1332X8ByQj73TDJ4WJQ9Qg1vLV1S3T0ZfzL9K1Tzgyp9n0Z!-241588878
Gérald Quintana wrote:
> Hi Paul,
>
> Happy new year!
>
>>> Question 1: I wondered whether it was possible to generate WADL
>>> descriptor from Java sources using an Ant script or command line tool?
>>>
>> Would you be interested and have
>> time to help out on developing such an ant task? My knowledge of the ant
>> API is limited...
>>
> Sorry but I don't have a lot of free time and my Ant knowledge is
> limited to using it.
>
>> Note that such static analysis will not necessarily get all the WADL for
>> all resources you have implemented. If all resources are root resources
>> then it will work, but if you have root resources that return
>> sub-resources then no WADL will be defined until those sub-resources get
>> instantiated i.e. the whole application cannot be know at compile time.
>>
> It's a pity that sub-resources can not be identified by tooling.
>
>>> Question 2: I saw that NetBeans 6 + JAXRS plugin was able to generate
>>> a Java Script Client. I wondered whether a tool to generate JavaScript
>>> stubs existed (wadl2javascript or something like that)
>>>
> If JavaScript stubs could be generated, it would make the development
> of AJAXified web applications a bit easier. We could use JAXRS
> resources as RPC services to get/push data from/to server. Well, it's
> just an idea...
>
> Thanks for your answers,
>
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