On 2013/05/14 15:45, Malcolm Edgar wrote:
I think this is an interesting discussion. I am seeing existing Multiple Page
Applications (MPA),
which is Clicks forte, evolve into hybrid MPA / Single Page Applications (SPA)
using frameworks like
AngularJS.
For serving JSON/RPC we have been using both hand coded Servlets with
net.sf.json.JSONSerializer and
using services built with RESTEasy (http://www.jboss.org/resteasy). The
RESTEasy approach is
more idiomatic Java (lots of layers of abstraction) and works well 99% of time.
I am not sure what the value Click could provide for services.
Nods, we will be reinventing the wheel a bit.
While I agree Velocity templates
would be useful for rendering a JSON response, the main problem in this space
is marshalling JSON
request data into Java objects. Maybe Marco google library would be good for
this.
I'm currently using GSON[1], mostly because their docs is straightforward.
How would you see the services being registered, e.g. XML definition or
auto-mapped some how ?
Guess annotation based but it looks like a pain to discover the annotated classes. There are some
libs to help with that part but EE environments are tricky eg. JBoss 7 has a custom file system
implementation which is tricky to 'scan'. Preprocessor could also be used at compile time to
discover annotated classes and build an index of classes.
One could also use plain interfaces and build up a cache at runtime eg: each request that matches a
valid class is placed in a map and cached for faster retrieval in the future.
Kind regards
Bob
[1]: http://code.google.com/p/google-gson/
