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Hi Everyone,
First a bit of background info:
* I am doing some R&D towards adopting RESTful practices in the web
applications I develop.
* I am coming from a M$-centric development environment, and I am very
keen to 'escape' and
so have been learning Java and Servlets.
* I have digested (as best I could) Roy Fielding's dissertation.
* I have gone through the tutorials on Restlets and got them all
working.
So, I would like to now start a prototype project to see whether this is the
best environment for me to use.
The prototype will be based on a CMS system for managing websites. The basic
datatypes I'll be referring to for now will be:
* Customer
* Site
* Page
(Where there are multiple customers in the system, each of whom could have
multiple sites, each of which will be made up of multiple pages).
I assume that these datatypes will actually be resources.
I am really stuck with how to actually make a start on this. I guess I'll
start by creating my resources as subclasses of Resource. I can see there
being 2 resources for each datatype (CustomersResource, CustomerResouce,
SitesResource, SiteResource, PagesResource, PageResource...)
I guess I'll then make these resources access the relevent database
(planning on using MySql) tables to populate themselves (based on the ids
retrieved from the query string using the request.getAttributes().get()
method).
Do I then attach the resources to a router (defining the path to the
resources) inside the createRoot overridden method of my Application
subclass, and then attach an instance of this application to a new
component's default virtual host?
As you may be able to tell, I have an extremely basic grip of this to start
with, and I'm hoping that this thread could become useful for other newbies
starting their journey in understanding Restlets.
I can tell its a powerful framework, but just where to begin!?!
Thankyou all in advance for any help contributed.
Marcus.
