ConverterService

[Justin Makeig]

There are a couple discussion threads about the ConverterService  
(http://www.mail-archive.com/discuss@restlet.tigris.org/ 
msg01773.html), but I still don't understand its advantages or how to  
implement it. I find myself writing the same type of code in the  
getRepresentation methods for all of my resources to expose them as  
HTML, JSON, and XML. Would the converter service simplify/centralize  
this? What about handling metadata (for example when building an HTML  
representation) beyond just the raw entity that's being serialized?  
Could I use the ConverterService in concert with Resource-level  
representation handling? For example to serialize/deserialize JSON  
and XML generically, but define HTML representations at the resource  
level. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Justin