RE: bad experience with restlets

2008-09-22 Thread Jerome Louvel
developer ~ http://www.restlet.org Noelios Technologies ~ Co-founder ~ http://www.noelios.com -Message d'origine- De : Jonathan Hall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Envoyé : vendredi 19 septembre 2008 16:29 À : discuss@restlet.tigris.org Objet : Re: bad experience with restlets Some thoughts

Re: bad experience with restlets

2008-09-19 Thread Rob Heittman
If a long turnaround for a blocker was 3 days at Eclipse, Ubuntu, GWT, or Ext (and, er, I won't even mention Apple), my life would be a lot simpler. But I do think many people will find Restlet more approachable when the documentation and examples catch up with the platform and reach a certain

Re: bad experience with restlets

2008-09-19 Thread Jonathan Hall
Some thoughts on the docs. The wiki's menu is a mass of expanded links and most are todos with noway of knowing, without clicking every single one, that they have content. It is truly awful to navigate. Should developer notes really be kept on the wiki? eg

RE: bad experience with restlets [1.0 to 1.1 migration experience]

2008-09-19 Thread Aron Roberts
In the message Re: bad experience with restlets, dated 2008-09-19, Jerome Louvel wrote: Thanks for the support guys :-) Alex hit a blocking bug, actually a regression introduced in 1.1 M5. I can understand the pain... this is the risk with unstable software. He just had bad luck. One more

bad experience with restlets

2008-09-18 Thread Alexei Sokolov
Well, I can't figure out how to do very simple things with restlets. I get NPE in RC1, I cannot configure restlets the way I want and wiki does not have anything useful on it. So much for breaking away from servlets. Sorry, but maybe when restlets reach v. 2.0 I will give it another try. Alex

Re: bad experience with restlets

2008-09-18 Thread Michael Terrington
Hi Alex, Sorry to hear of your bad experience but I have to speak up to defend Restlet. I've not seen a cleaner, easier to follow framework with so much flexibility before. I'm not sure how you were starting off, but I found that running standalone was the easiest to get going and understand.

Re: bad experience with restlets

2008-09-18 Thread Erik Beeson
I second Michael's thoughts. I looked at restlets half a dozen or so times over the past year or so before finally taking the plunge a couple of weeks ago. While I might not say it's the easiest framework I've ever used, it is very nice once you get the hang of it. It took a couple of days of