Hi Marcus, Your approach to resources modeling sounds good. Resource subclasses, attached to a root router will compose your application. Then you can just attach your application to the component's default virtual host.
Once you deploy to a real server with a domain name, you might want to create a dedicated virtual host, especially if you host several domain names on the same IP. We are also currently writing a book on Restlet that will provide a more detailed methodology on how to design your Restlet applications, and how to you the Restlet framework. See this link: http://www.restlet.org/documentation/books Best regards, Jerome > -----Message d'origine----- > De : news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] De la part de Marcus > Envoyé : lundi 10 mars 2008 06:54 > À : [email protected] > Objet : Re: Starting a new web application, using Restlets > > 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 > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > 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: > <Newbie Alert/> > > 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. > >
