Paul Brown wrote:
On 6/1/07, Jim Alateras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I'm not familiar with the rest support in axis2 and how well it aligns
with the general REST architectural style. I have used the restlet
framework on other projects and have been happy with it. The abstraction
of REST concepts (Resources, URIs and Representations) are relatively
good and the support is first class.
The AXIS2 support is not that RESTful, i.e., it's a mapping of HTTP
GET with parameters onto operations without regard to the underlying
resources.
Just for clarification, Axis2's HTTP support can be used to define a fully
RESTful HTTP binding if that's what you want. We fully support the WSDL
2.0 HTTP binding. However you can do non-RESTful HTTP bindings too.
This is not to say that a nice pure REST interface doesn't have its
merits. However, BPEL is naturally limited in its RESTfulness by its
intrinsic modeling based on XSD.
Sanjiva.
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