Hi,
please allow me to bring to your attention my just finished bachelor thesis on
the subject of the design of a restful API to be useful for a Groupware or the
person related informations of OpenSocial.
I'd appreciate any feedback. The text will be available under a free license
after I received the mark for it.
Points that might be of special interest for (some of) you:
- a modernized design of CalAtom/CardAtom[1] without the need for a new
"feature" property
- efficient synchronization of collections with restful HTTP
- properties of vCard useful (or missing) for OpenSocial
- use of OpenSearch for reports
- use of nice small value objects replacing some functionality of Jersey
(Java REST framework)
- a "resource facade" framework to support multiple "views" or media types of
the same data
- a minimal implementation of an atom pub server on top of Jersey
[1]
http://robubu.com/?cat=2
http://github.com/thkoch2001/bachelor-
thesis/blob/master/latex/restful_groupware.pdf
Please be forgiving with the quality of my writing. It's a thesis written
under time pressure and other constraints and I'm not a writer.
Best regards,
Thomas Koch,
http://www.koch.ro