After 4 months of release candidates, we are happy to announce that Prudence is production-worthy. We've been using it very successfully with numerous in-house projects and for several clients.
Prudence provides Restlet developers with a complete, Restlet-centric deployment container, as an alternative to deploying via JEE containers such as Tomcat. As a container, Prudence also allows JSP-like scriptlet programming, albeit based on Restlet and with many sophisticated caching features. For more information on using Prudence as a container: http://threecrickets.com/prudence/manual/restlet-container/ Moreover, Prudence can provide Restlet programmers with an alternative programming environment, based on one of six JVM languages: Python, Ruby, Clojure, JavaScript, PHP or Groovy. Use the full power of Restlet without writing a single line of Java code! This is useful not only for quick prototyping of REST resources, but also works very well for full-blown products. For example, we've had unprecedented success working and deploying with the "LEMP" stack: Linux, Ext-JS, MongoDB, and Prudence for JavaScript. Using JavaScript on the server, client and database allows us to stay within the same coding paradigm throughout the RESTful project and encourages cooperation within our development teams. We've never been able to complete projects which such speed before, while having complete confidence in the products' ability to scale and grow. I'd like to personally thank Jerome, Thierry and everyone who assisted on the Restlet mailing list during development! It's been a wonderful journey. And now, it's time to think of Prudence 1.1... Sincerely, Tal Liron and Three Crickets ------------------------------------------------------ http://restlet.tigris.org/ds/viewMessage.do?dsForumId=4447&dsMessageId=2699853
