> -----Original Message----- > From: cogitate [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2011 10:43 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: CXF with HATEOS or hypermedia > > We are fully invested in CXF for supporting payloads of various types - > not > just Webservices but also RESTful services. However , for RESTful > services > we want to have "hypermedia" support. > > Currently it seems CXF isn't supporting this and we are under pressure > to go > to "Jersey" - however, i wouldn't want to throw our CXF code out. > > what's the way out? > design principles or information on any future support for Hypermedia > would > be appreciated.
HATEOAS (not HATEOS) is a simple concept. You don't need Jersey to use HATEOAS. If you use the UriBuilder you can construct URLs that point to controller methods. You can then populate responses with that data. Jersey may provide more complete features (I've been seeing something about "linking"), but HATEOAS is what you make of it.
