Yeah you're not likely to hear about it from this podcast since ODATA is being pioneered by Microsoft. But it's basically "REST taken to the next level", completely with complex query capabilities. This is more useful in .NET than Java I guess, since it becomes trivial to talk to an ODATA endpoint* from directly within the language using LINQ. There was a short but good into at MIX '10: http://ecn.channel9.msdn.com/o9/mix/10/mp4/KEY02.mp4
* To find movies in NetFlix's database which has Java in the synopsis, you'd write: http://odata.netflix.com/Catalog/Titles?$filter=substringof('Java',Synopsis) /Casper On Aug 25, 1:26 pm, Wildam Martin <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 12:59, Casper Bang <[email protected]> wrote: > > You can very well use GWT to do this kind of work, you don't NEED to > > connect a heavyweight service layer, but could just connect to a > > simpel key-value store or ODATA endpoint in much the same way we use > > the HTML5 localestorage API. > > That sounds interesting - never heard about the ODATA before - should > have a look, thanks. > > -- > Martin Wildam > > http://www.google.com/profiles/mwildam -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
