After further investigation of the source code, I rediscovered the main intent behind the Representation#release() method which is to provide a callback from the connectors to the representation that can be called when it has been fully written out, therefore allowing the release of associated resources such as database connections.
Representations provided by the connectors themselves apparently don't rely on this method to be called as long as the content is fully read or exhausted, but it shouldn't hurt to call it systematically. I've revised the wiki page again as well as the Representation#release() Javadocs to further clarify those points. Best regards, Jerome ------------------------------------------------------ http://restlet.tigris.org/ds/viewMessage.do?dsForumId=4447&dsMessageId=2695526
