I'm just starting out with the Restlet framework after reading the excellent RESTful Web Services book. I've had a lot of experience with Spring MVC and Hibernate web applications, but it doesn't cut it for RESTful web applications.
However, I want to reuse the spring managed objects and Data Access Objects from my existing projects. I also want to remove the dependency on Servlets and use the Restlet framework supported by Jetty or AsyncWeb. I'm confused by the need for the SpringContext? I assume you can just create a ClassPathXmlApplicationContext passing the applicationContext.xml. All you need is the map of url => SpringFinder beans for each of your resources. Am I missing something? Also, has anyone tried wiring an entire application with Spring? A few BeanFactory's here and there would do the trick! -- Kim
