I am also quite interested in the latter two options. Will Restlet team give out a standard(or recommended) approach about how to deploy a web application using for example option 2, for example a WebApplication which has lots of well-defined elements for serving static resources from a jar or some other locations?
On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 10:10 PM, Rob Heittman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > It depends on what you are trying to build with Restlet. > If you need something that a JEE container provides (e.g. lifecycle > services, deploy/undeploy applications, integration with existing Servlet > code), or are required to run in an existing JEE container for business > reasons, then you should use the ServerServlet approach. > > If you don't need any of the JEE container features and aren't using any > Servlet API, it is good to have the ability to run Restlet in standalone > mode (start Component from "main") with your choice of connector. This is > excellent for lightweight embedded systems, and also for any "legacy-free" > new application which is designed totally around Restlet and doesn't need > any JEE baggage. > > There is also at least one other really interesting option, which is to run > Restlet as an OSGi service within an OSGi framework. This shares some > properties/advantages of both the JEE and Standalone approach, and > introduces other neat possibilities. Some of us (at least Hendy and I that > I know of) have played with Restlet on OSGi a lot. > > - Rob > > On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 8:47 AM, Gan123 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> >> Hi, >> >> i am new to restlet, started exploring. i found we can access an >> application mapped to ServerServlet in a web application, as well we can >> create a application where we use restlet client to create a client and >> use >> main to start application. >> >> in the first approach we are using the web server, where as the second >> approach we use restlet webcontainer for our application launch.. am i >> right? >> >> if not clarify me, as tell me which way is suggested and best >> >> Thanks in advance >> -- >> View this message in context: >> http://n2.nabble.com/which-is-better-way-for-web-application-using-RESTlet--tp1498498p1498498.html >> Sent from the Restlet Discuss mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >> >> > -- Cheers, Keke ----------------- We paranoid love life
