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Re: [Jersey] Future plans for Jersey, JAX-RS and HATEOS support ?

From: Paul Sandoz <Paul.Sandoz_at_Sun.COM>
Date: Thu, 20 May 2010 15:36:09 +0200

On May 20, 2010, at 3:30 PM, Paul Sandoz wrote:

> On May 20, 2010, at 3:13 PM, Morten wrote:
>
>> Does any plans exist for extending JAX-RS and Jersey to have HATEOS
>> support now that Marc has left ?
>>
>
> Yes, both client and server support is planed. We want to ensure
> that we have stable releases in time for the GlassFish 3.1 release,
> which means it needs to be stable by September:
>
> http://wiki.glassfish.java.net/Wiki.jsp?page=3.1Jersey
>
> The client and server stuff is currently in the experimental section
> and distributed only for snapshots until we are happy with the API.
> Our experience with this API will be input to any JAX-RS 2.0 effort.
>
> I think what Marc has done with declarative hyperlinking is
> reasonably stable:
>
> https://jersey.dev.java.net/nonav/documentation/latest/user-guide.html
> #d4e1173
>
> we need feedback.
>

Note that we could potentially move the above into the stable area
earlier than September.

Paul.


> I like what Santiago did with the contextual action set.
>
> https://jersey.dev.java.net/nonav/documentation/latest/user-guide.html
> #d4e1019
>
> But Marc and I did wonder if the declarative hyperlinking mechanism
> could also support the same concepts in a more general form to
> support link headers.
>
> The work that Jan and I have done on the client (strongly influenced
> on my part by Santiago's work) is still in progress but i think the
> general concepts seem to be mostly sound, and we need work on
> integrating better with the Jersey infrastructure.
>
> Again feedback is most appreciated and/or help on development.
>
>
>> P.S. On short-time basis is there any viable solution for
>> production usage apart from switching from Jersey ?
>>
>
> Not really. If you are happy with some of the experimental support
> you could fork it for your own purposes.
>
> Paul.
>
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