Why no one goes further and proposes the concrete schema and classes for doing this?
I really have no great knowledge in the area, so the following is just a some kind of expectation what we really need to do while elaborating such a system. Let we play with HTTP protocol and we have just the only EVENT server that exposes the following REST interfaces: 1) http://newbie.com/feeds lists the HTML docs with the following information <div class="feeds"> <ul> <li class="feed"> <a href="http://newbie.com/feed/msf-17";>Medical Sensor Feed # 17</a> </li> <li class="feed"> <a href="http://newbie.com/feed/msf-27";>Radio Sensor Feed # 27</a> </li> <!-- etc --> </ul> </div> 2) http://newbie.com/feed/msf-11 lists the stream <div class="feed"> This is a feed from <span class="source"><a href="http://newbie.com/feeds";>source feed list</a> </span> with the name <span class="name">http://newbie.com/feed/msf-11</span> <ul> <!-- data in the same manner --> <!-- never stop --> When each GET to the service its start propagation of the current EVENT window to the client. And never stop the request GET http://newbie.com/feed/msf-11?n=1500 means GET 1500 data items from the feed and refuse connection GET http://newbie.com/feed/msf-11?t=2007-10-17T21:00Z Refuse connection near the specified time GET http://newbie.com/feed/msf-11?e=fastinfoset produce the same content using some kind of binary encoding to compress GET http://newbie.com/feed/msf-11?e=plain NEED to populate the propose schema data per row / number. So this protocol would be used only by closed, yours proprietary system that feel ok to do this in such a manner. No interoperability here. 3) I don't know what to set up in Content-length, may be we need to work in the schema PARTIAL GET (that is uses for download manager). 4) We need to work with KEEP-ALIVE HTTP 1/1 switch on and use the Continuation feature (Grizzly / AcyncWeb / Jetty) 5) We need to create an StreamRepresenation class, it's simple, and probably use the write(WritableChannel) methods to produce content 6) We MAY use the direct NIO transfer of repeatable chunks like </a> </li> <li class="feed"> <a href="http://newbie.com/feed/msf-27";> 7) AND at the last we may look through the ability to use the restlet with the specific protocol for this purpose. I suspect that MINA is the good way to connect restlet with to do this easyly. mmm, do anyone try to use 4th item (Continuation) with restlet?
