I'm using restlet to manage a media catalog of music files. I have a nice restful API for getting the media information, e.g. ID3Tags for MP3 files, and so on.
I have a server side application, not running in a web application server, that embeds the restlet container. I also have a Java media client application that uses this service and can play audio files across the network by having a web server stream the audio files to the client over HTTP. Currently I simply stream the audio files directly from URLs on a separate Tomcat instance but I'm now thinking why isn't that just a restful GET request to my existing server-side application? Does anyone have any opinions or pointers on this, is it an appropriate usage of the restlet API - is this sort of long-lived requests for streaming of audio files something that should be done with a restlet approach? Is there anything I should look out for? I guess I'm concerned about resource usage, long running requests and timeouts. Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated. ------------------------------------------------------ http://restlet.tigris.org/ds/viewMessage.do?dsForumId=4447&dsMessageId=1069260
