> From: Paul.Sandoz_at_Sun.COM [mailto:Paul.Sandoz_at_Sun.COM]
>
> On Nov 7, 2008, at 3:04 PM, Robertson, Jeff wrote:
>
> > Paul and Craig, you guys seem to be headed down the path of
> RESTifying
> > not just web services, but web *applications*.
>
> From the perspective of the REST style there is no
> difference between a RESTful Web service and a RESTful Web
> application, the same principles apply :-)
Agreed.
> I hope i don't come across as too preachy :-) I hope that by
> discussing this developers can make better pragmatic
> engineering decisions and under stand the tradeoffs they are
> making for their particular applications.
Right.
>
> > This is a much bigger, VERY ambitious goal, as I'm sure you
> know. It
> > means reversing the course of web development in the Java
> world since
> > Servlets. Somebody's got to do it, I guess.
> >
>
> I believe there are a quite a few frameworks exploring this
> area e.g.
> Rails, Grails, Django, Apache Sling etc.
>
Right.. And they (or should I say we?) are all working to overturn a
weight of established practices so widespread that it rivals all the
shifts in "back end" Java (from "old" EJB to Spring and Hibernate to EJB
3, and beyond). These are interesting times.