Hi Dan,

Thanks for your explanations, that make sense to me.
I review the code, and i wondering if the PUT should use addCustomer, and the POST should use updateCustomer? One thing i still can not understand is that the difference between REST POST and the normal POST? are they same?

In @GET, how you map the uri to the operation name? through the annotation? and i guess in @GET method we can only support simple type, right? What's the mechanism to map the uri to parameters? it's the name-value pair or just value?

I'm thinking of support GET for SOAP1.2, but finally i found that it may work for all bindings (SOAP1.1 SOAP1.2 and XML), The scenario I'm imaging is that for the normal POST webservice, we can use GET to retrieve the result through GET as long as the parameters are simple type. sort of RPC style, but should work. for example, for the hello_world sayHi/greetMe method, we normally write a client code to invoke the service, since now we support GET, you don't need to do so, you can even use browser to retrieve the result, just use the URI http://localhost:9000/SoapContext/SoapPort/sayHi or http://localhost:9000/SoapContext/SoapPort/greetMe/requestType/Dan or http://localhost:9000/SoapContext/SoapPort/greetMe?requestType=Dan

Thoughts?

-James
Hi James,

While it could be called a REST binding, REST is an architectual style, not a specific implementation. When we talk about doing REST style services, usually we're talking about doing HTTP. HTTP is a protocol just like SOAP. We map operations to resources and http headers to parameters.

One of the goals is to support the WSDL 2 HTTP binding [1] (which is part of where the name comes from too). While CXF has some basic XML/HTTP support it doesn't support the full range of things needed. For instance, I can't easily map URIs and verbs to operations. With the Java REST annotations which I've been working on, this is fairly trivial:

@Get
@HttpResource(location="/customers/{id}")
public Customer getCustomer(String id) { .. }

I can easily map an operation to any URI and also to any verb via @Get/@Post/@Delete/@Put.

Does that help answer your questions?

- Dan

1. http://www.w3.org/TR/wsdl20-adjuncts/#http-binding
2. http://jra.codehaus.org

James Mao wrote:

Hi Dan,

What's the 'HTTP binding' for? is it just for REST?
If so why call it 'HTTP binding'? can we call it 'REST binding'?
'HTTP' sounds just like a transport.
The 'HTTP binding' is use HTTP transport, right? so we have 'HTTP over HTTP'? sounds weird.

Another question is that current CXF REST support is based on JAX-WS, why we need the 'HTTP binding' to expose the JAX-WS service again?

Thanks,
James.

Author: dandiep
Date: Mon Oct 23 11:52:16 2006
New Revision: 467080

URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=rev&rev=467080
Log:
Add an "HTTP binding" which uses the Java Rest Annotations (new project at the Codehaus which James Strachan and I started) to expose JAX-WS services as REST style services. Thanks to Guillaume Nodet who supplied the IriDecoderHelper class which was
indispensible.

Currently this just includes:
o simple server side functionality to take JAX-WS operations and expose them as resources using the @HttpResource annotation and @Get/@Put/@Post/@Delete.
o Ability to take URI parameters and construct an incoming XML document
  according to WSDL 2 spec
o Ability to take URI parameters and an incoming XML document and merge them

Other things in this commit:
o Fixed the JAXBDataBinding so we didn't twice initialize the Types if the WSDLServiceBuilder already did it. o Added support for recognizing unwrapped operations in XMLOutInterceptor






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