Thierry: I looked through that example code, but I think it is not quite what I'm looking for. Those examples seemed to all be on the client side. What I'm looking for is the server side code.
Here's what I'm basically trying to do: I'm replacing an existing application that has a web application and provides web services using Axis to other applications. The code retrieves items from a relational database, and presents the data either to a user (via the web app) or to client applications via Java web services (via Axis). Rather than add to the existing Axis code to support the client applications, I'd like to replace that with Restlets. The entities that I have to return do have some structure that I'll need to maintain (e.g., Genes contain one to many Transcripts, which contain one to many Proteins), and some of the use cases are such that the user wants everything to do with a single Gene. For performance reasons, I certainly don't want to do dozens of round-trips to the server to get the entire hierarchy. So I'm considering return data as XML. So on the server side, I'm starting with a small network for Java objects that I have retrieved from the database (using Hibernate). I need to convert that XML and return the XML. I'm NOT starting with static XML files and don't want to write out XML files, only to read them back in as DOM objects. Where I'm confused looking at Restlets is how I create the representation on the server side. Thanks, Jared
