O'Reilly's RESTful Web Services suggests one representation of a resource
could be for the human web, i.e. serving application/xhtml+xml or even
text/html for people to use directly. While I realize creating webpages
(however simple) is not the focus of REST or Jersey, I'm trying to combine
it since I've fallen in love with its simplicity (having had painful
encounters with gigantic and complex JSF stacks in the past).
One problem with this however is that I'm finding myself either writing
html/css/javascript inside Java Strings and/or serving JSP. I wonder if
others have taken this path before and if they have any
recommendations/experiences to share? I expect one possible answer is not to
do it, but rather create another layer for the human web that simple
consumes the resources. However, I can't help feeling that there could be
space for a simpe human web framework on top of Jersey at a provider level.
Am I wrong?
Thanks in advance,
Casper