Hi Paul,

Has anybody done a Flickr client using Restlet?  If so, details
> appreciated.  Or, failing that, being pointed in the right direction
> on how to do it (what classes to derive from) would be good.


In the REST book, there is a  sample  bookmark client, similar to
del.icio.us that you could get inspiration from. Also have a look at our
Atom extension which is an Atom/APP client.
http://www.restlet.org/documentation/books

I've been looking at the Restlet code and the thing that strikes me
> as wrong is that the core classes have a small, finite number of
> authentication schemes hard-coded into them, e.g., NMTL and AWS.
> IMHO, there should be no authentication schemes hard-coded.  There
> should be an interface and instead a set of bundled ones, but there's
> no reason, for example, why SecurityUtils should know anything about
> the "X-Amz-Date" HTTP header.


Absolutely, we even have a RFE for pluggable authentication:
http://restlet.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=229

Best regards,
Jerome

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