Like many others I’ve been playing around with REST, an HTTP-based convention for performing CRUD calls against resources. One thing I’ve done is download RESTlet, a Java implementation of a REST framework. Of course, one concern in the tech world is that you’ll choose some approach only to discover that a competing technology disrupts the marketplace of ideas, or that an alternate approach becomes a standard. In the case of Java and REST the proposed standard is JSR-311. Looking back on it, I got lucky, in that I didn’t see any specific mention of JSR-311 on the RESTlet site, but I didn’t care: I was just playing around and wanted to see how light (or heavy) the framework was. Today I serendipitously found a mention of RESTlet and JSR-311 on the Noelios site here. If you’re looking for an example to get your feet wet, then try the RESTlet wiki, which has a short sample bit here.
So, in the words of Bill Murray, it’s got that going for it.
