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RE: [Jersey] What HATEOAS actually means

From: Markus Karg <markus.karg_at_gmx.net>
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2010 23:11:42 +0100

> > I could also envision a means to iterate over the items of a steady
> state that 'is' a collection. The actual primary representation of the
> steady state might be RSS or Atom feed or even text/uri-list but from a
> client program POV I just might not care.
> >
> > So there is some kind of common ground to leverage.
> >
> Yes, I think this could be a useful avenue to explore. We could provide
> standard plug-ins for common link formats (e.g. atom:link in XML docs)
> and an extension API for addition of application-specific formats.

100% Agree