Hi On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 7:18 AM, Raj Floyd <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi > > REST style architecture, being based on HTTP specification, has common > conventions like GET, POST typically also used by Servlets. Any idea why one > would prefer RESTful Web service and not plain Servlet based framework. Its > Web and HTTP in the end. I know this question may not be directly related to > CXF but really need to understand the clear semantics between RESTful and > Servlet based frameworks. Will appreciate if you could guide me to a post or > white paper which has this discussion. > One can write a RESTful application using Servlet, JAX-RS and possibly other apis in Java alone. I think JAX-RS simplifies a lot the way a request URI can be matched, parsed, handled. For example, suppose you need to handle GET requests with URIs such as /a, a/{id}, a/{id}/b/{id2}, etc... JAX-RS makes it easy to assign handlers (resource methods) early to those URIs, extract parameters, etc...
Cheers, Sergey > Thanks. > > Raj > -- Sergey Beryozkin http://sberyozkin.blogspot.com Talend - http://www.talend.com
