Personally, I don't really want to write an APP implementation from scratch, so I would recommend that we look at making it easy to hook in Abdera and build off that. James Snell recently did some annotation work:
http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-abdera-dev/200708.mbox/browser I mentioned the JPA/JAXB idea there, but not sure that it picked up any steam. :-) - Dan On 8/8/07, James Strachan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 8/7/07, Dan Diephouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi James, > > > > I've thought about APP and CXF a bit, and I've not yet seen a great way > to > > bring the two together. The way you design & model your services is > > completely different. Can you go into more detail about how you see the > two > > coming together? > > Am not totally sure yet :) Was hoping someone less heavily loaded > would dive in and experiment :) > > I guess the most natural starting point could be to just model JPA > beans first - as entity beans are naturally CRUD-ish, map nicely to > RESTful resources, have definite collections, relationships & > navigation paths. So start with entity beans & get those working (i.e. > expose all/any JPA entity beans as APP easily); then see if we can > work on other things afterwards as a pseudo entity bean maybe? > > Resources often map to 'entities' of some kind (little blobs of XML, a > row in a database etc) so rather than starting with the random > any-old-Java-object service model - starting with entity beans might > be a better start? > > > -- > James > ------- > http://macstrac.blogspot.com/ > -- Dan Diephouse Envoi Solutions http://envoisolutions.com | http://netzooid.com/blog
