Kind of jumping in half way here.. but I actually recommended someone to use Jersey over other MVC frameworks to build both a MVC and REST capable web app. I like how it's possible to build MVC using Jersey and meanwhile support REST too. Frankly, for my own stuff.. this is how I will proceed from now on.
That said, I like the idea of allowing beans populated from form data. I take it Jersey will have to automatically determine that if something like:
public Response handleFormData(User user){
}
where User is NOT a JAXB object..but instead an actual bean... Jersey can determine this correct? I didn't dig deep.. but I thought JAXB objects have various @XmlType annotations in it.. where as a regular bean would have nothing of the sort.. .maybe that would make it easy enough for Jersey to determine it's not a JAXB class. Just a thought... but I would see this as a great addition to allow for a bit more MVC like framework out of Jersey. However... is that starting to take Jersey into a direction of being more than a REST framework... even though it could be... is it trying to be too much? For me.. no.. but I could see how many may argue that Jersey is becoming a bloated framework and not sticking to its core REST capabilities.
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From: Paul Sandoz <Paul.Sandoz_at_Sun.COM>
To: users_at_jersey.dev.java.net
Sent: Tuesday, November 4, 2008 2:16:20 AM
Subject: Re: [Jersey] Struts-like population of form beans
Hi Jeff,
Apologies i forgot to reply on the wiki.
We don't support form beans yet, just @FormParam on the parameters of a resource method.
I think it is a good idea, for URL encoded or in general for multipart whether it be for form-data or other multi-parts, and it would be good to be part of Jersey. For multipart bean support we build upon Craig's API. It would be good to share bean processing functionality between URL-based and multi-part based beans.
Paul.
On Nov 4, 2008, at 1:22 AM, Robertson, Jeff wrote:
Since we have Craig at our disposal here, I figure I'll bring this up.
Before I subscribed to the mailing list, I posted this on the wiki:
http://wikis.sun.com/display/Jersey/getting+form+data+as+a+populated+javabean
(Note: that code compiled against 0.9. Will not compile with 1.0)
Does anyone thing this is something that should be in Jersey and/or JAX-RS? Not my implementation, which I worked on for less than an hour before wikifying it, but the general idea?