Hi, my javascript proof-of-concept on top of the json-viewer is now officially open source: http://code.google.com/p/restfulobjects-js/
Johan. On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 2:02 PM, Dan Haywood <[email protected]> wrote: > REST > > Another point that I was keen to see factored into the marketing message for > Isis is its REST support (the json-viewer). As you may have picked up from > other posts, I've been developing a standalone spec, Restful Objects [2], > which defines defines a set of RESTful resources, and corresponding JSON > representations, for accessing and manipulating a domain object model. > > I'm quite excited by this Restful stuff. On the one hand, as well as Isis' > implementation, there's also another .NET implementation underway via Naked > Objects MVC (Richard Pawson has been providing great feedback on the spec). > And Johan Andries has been making good progress on a new RESTful UI, which > I'm hoping might go open source. Also, the REST approach has met a good > reaction at our (joint) client in Ireland. > > In terms of marketing, my view is that REST is an area where there is > currently a lot of interest, but developers looking into it will likely > realise that it's a complex area to do right (ful support for HATEOAS, HTTP > headers and status codes etc). As such, developers might be interested in a > framework that can help them out, at a somewhat higher level of abstraction > than JSR-311. The proposition is: press a button and get a complete, fully > restful API to any domain model. >
