On Dec 17, 2009, at 12:10 AM, Michael Cervenak Ahern wrote: > Hi, > > I have full existing ATOM API for my application written on top of > Struts 1 + Abdera - it was ugly, but the request was just there :) > I had looked at the Abdera server framework also, but it is > extremely awkward to use and tries to abstract to much of the server > interaction from the implementor. > > I had looked Apache CFX in the past, but I was hoping I could get > the a good enough + to be improved option solution without having to > pull in a full JAX-RS project.
Well that was one of the things I was coming up against with Stripes. Basically, the mapping part of Stripes is nice, but it's the binding that really makes it shine. But, it only works with generic x-www-form-urlencoded data, it won't bind JSON or XML, both of which are more common in the more complex REST systems. It works great for Ajaxy stuff, submit basic requests, and readily return JSON, but if you want to use JSON or XML as an input data type, then Stripes loses a large amount of its functionality. And I really didn't think it was that worthwhile to reinvent that much of the wheel to bring Stripes up to par with other systems, because I think it would roughly become a two faced beast, one the action side, and the other the web services side. Better to try and be a good citizen and work well with others, IMHO, than reinvent that from scratch. Regards, Will Hartung ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Stripes-users mailing list Stripes-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/stripes-users
