On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 14:58, webp...@tigris.org wrote:
I am evaluating Restlet 2.0 vs. Spring 3.0 for a new project that is starting
soon. I have done a lot of reading on the website and have written a couple
of small programs with Restlet 2.0M6 to get the feel for it. I am looking to
hear from people who have been using it into production about their
configuration choices.
We're running 1.1, but my answers might still be helpful. We have 5
complex apps in production.
1) What connector are you using with Restlet in production?
We've been using the Jetty connector for a few years now, and we're
very happy with it.
I very much like the idea of not having to run inside of a web container, but
I am not sure from the list of available connectors which are the best for
production, and what are the pros and con's of each connector. Any advice
from the community on this is appreciated.
We run our apps as standalone apps — no servlet container — and I'm
very happy with this approach. We use the Tanuki Service Wrapper to
run them as Windows services.
2) How are you dealing with Caching on the server side?
Mostly Memcache, some OSCache. I prefer Memcache, and after trying out
EHCache, I think it's better than OSCache.
3) Are you finding that the Services / Data Access Layers in Standard Web
Apps don’t apply in the Restlet World?
I didn't have a lot of experience with Java web development before I
started using Restlet, so I'm not sure what a Service is in a
Standard web app. But I have used a Data Access Object in one of my
Restlet apps, and that's worked out just fine.
Given that we are exposing resources and no longer exposing services and
functionality, do you find that the need for Data Access Objects is gone? As
i think about what the app will do, I keep noticing that it is easier to put
the data access for a resource into the Restlet instead of making a Data
Access Object. After all PUT, POST, and DELETE will do something to the
persistent state of the resource and GET will just query it. Thoughts about
this from the community are highly appreciated.
This is highly specific to your application.
4) What does your Restlet production setup look like?
Can you elaborate? What kind of information are you looking for?
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