Thanks Code Dude,
As mentioned I have already gone through all of the first steps, and the
more in-depth tutorial.
I am not currently using an IDE - although it is a steeper learning curve, I
am getting my feet wet quickly.
I see very little point in using servlets and an application container like
TomCat, as the Restlet framework uses the SimpleFramework libraries, and
this seems very tidy to me.
What I am really after is almost a handful of 'steps', that outline a
process on how to get started. Although there are a handful of code snippets
around, what I feel would be very handy would be a full implementation
example. i.e. Starting with an idea for a web application, and showing how
to design it RESTfully and implement it using the framework.
In my original post, I have outlined what I 'believe' would be the starting
steps in my example provided. I will try to adopt these steps to start with.
"code dude" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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How about downlaoding a decent IDE like netbeans or eclipse and reading and
implementing simple RESTLETS in quik start tutorial ->
http://www.restlet.org/documentation/1.0/firstSteps
On 3/10/08, Marcus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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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.
