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Re: [Jersey] Interlinking resources

From: Paul Sandoz <Paul.Sandoz_at_Sun.COM>
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 15:55:52 +0100

On Mar 26, 2009, at 2:46 PM, Imran M Yousuf wrote:
>> I am wondering if in general we need a "link model" that can be
>> obtained for
>> a resource that describes the root link and sub-resource links, and
>> from
>> which URIs can be instantiated. The JAXB WADL beans provides that,
>> but i
>> think something more focused might be easier to use.
>>
>> In general this area needs a lot more investigation and
>> experimentation. Two
>> experiments which seem to go rather well were using AOP to fill in
>> the links
>> of JAXB beans, and the integration with Sommer (RDF framework)
>> using a
>> JavaBean property model where properties correspond to templates.
>>
>
> Very interesting indeed, to be honest I asked the question just to
> confirm that I am not working on something that already exists :). I
> have started work on something just like this. Once I have a
> meaningful code and a prototype I will RFC from all of you :),
> hopefully I will have something more on it by next Monday.
>

Great!

Paul.