Hi, I am new to Restlet and any similar technology and I am wondering about the right approach to share business and data objects (eg. Hibernate) among Restlet Resources.
After reading the books, docs and older posts in this forum, I know why the Component Context shall not be used to pass information to the Resource Restlets. I have also seen people talking different approaches: 1) Create an singleton that provides access to the shared objects. I personally dislike singleton approaches. 2) Put the shared objects as attributes to the Application Context. This requires (implicit) conventions about attribute names and casting. And requires going through each Resource Restlet if some of the convention changes. 3) Extend the Context with getter methods for shared objects. Objects are stored as variables inside the Context. Resources then cast the Context and call the getter methods. 4) Extend the Application with getter methods for shared objects. Objects are stored as variables inside the Application. Resources then cast the Application and call the getter methods. 5) Some better approach that I am missing? Sorry if the question is quite elementary, but I am not familiar to webservice/restlet development. I will appreciate your advice. Thanks, Daniel Felix Ferber ------------------------------------------------------ http://restlet.tigris.org/ds/viewMessage.do?dsForumId=4447&dsMessageId=2462248
