Hi Henry, I was about to answer the same thing. In addition to Google, Microsoft is making a heavy use of Atom as well in its ADO.NET Data Services (ex-Astoria) technology:
"Overview: ADO.NET Data Services" http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/data/bb931106.aspx?ppud=4 However, for communication with GWT, it is indeed a better idea to rely on JSON. I have also been working on reusing the 'transparent' serialization of beans between Restlet/Server and Restlet/GWT. This serialization is used in GWT-RPC but can be reused in a RESTful way. This isn't quite ready yet, but hopefully for Restlet 2.0 M4, I'll have something more stable. As David mentioned, this could be complementary to exposing Atom representations of your resources. Finally, I'm not sure if you need to support the full AtomPub standard or just the Atom XML one. Best regards, Jerome Louvel -- Restlet ~ Founder and Lead developer ~ http://www.restlet.org Noelios Technologies ~ Co-founder ~ http://www.noelios.com -----Message d'origine----- De : Hendy Irawan [mailto:he...@soluvas.com] Envoyé : lundi 20 juillet 2009 17:54 À : discuss@restlet.tigris.org Objet : Re: Guidance on Atom/APP in Restlet Hi Tim, The biggest APP user I know is Google, with practically all of its API using the Google Data (GData) protocol. It's basically a extended version of APP, most due to practicality reasons prevailing over idealistic (i.e. "pure" APP). GData puts some extensive stress testing on APP, i.e. Using advanced features such as querying and returning different serialization formats not just Atom+XML, but manages to adhere to fundamental principles of APP. Aside from Google's own "proprietary" auth mechanism (which I think can be replaced with Oauth for general masses), I think Google's use of GData/APP is a good example of APP in the real world. On 7/18/09, Tim Peierls <t...@peierls.net> wrote: > Some rambling newbie Restlet design questions: > > Background: I'm in the preliminary stages of a ground-up redesign of an > existing non-Restlet application. I'm (naturally) convinced that Restlet is > the way to go for this redesign, and I'm pretty sure I want the UI to be > GWT-based. So far so good ... GWT-Restlet is alive and well. (And I'll get > cracking on a Restlet-Guice extension before too long, or not, depending on > how you define "too".) > > My analysis of the existing application keeps leading me to the Atom > Publishing Protocol, because the key elements of that application "feel" > like collections of publishable/updatable resources (and collections of such > collections). It doesn't fit the canonical examples of APP, however, which > leads to my first questions: Does anyone know of APP being used successfully > outside of the usual document/news item examples that everyone uses to > explain it? If so, what criteria would you use to determine whether APP is > really appropriate to my resource design? > > I'm sort of hoping the answer is a resounding yes to this, in which case my > second question is: If I want to design my application around APP but I > don't intend to use a file-based storage system like eXist, what does > Atomojo have for me that the Restlet Atom extension doesn't? Is there > something else that I should know about? > > --tim > > ------------------------------------------------------ > http://restlet.tigris.org/ds/viewMessage.do?dsForumId=4447&dsMessageId=23721 42 -- Sent from my mobile device Best regards, Hendy Irawan http://www.hendyirawan.com/ :: he...@soluvas.com ------------------------------------------------------ http://restlet.tigris.org/ds/viewMessage.do?dsForumId=4447&dsMessageId=23726 37 ------------------------------------------------------ http://restlet.tigris.org/ds/viewMessage.do?dsForumId=4447&dsMessageId=2372850
