new free book chapter available: RESTful services

[marius.andreiana]

Hi,

Part of GWT/GAE book, I've just added a chapter on RESTful services:
http://code.google.com/p/gwt-gae-book/wiki/ManagingLocations

Looking forward to group feedback and better ways to consume REST
services from GWT.

Happy New Year :)
Marius

[Thomas Broyer]

This is not ReST, ReST is about hypertext (HATEOAS). Using a URL per resource is not enough to make a service "RESTful": http://www.crummy.com/writing/speaking/2008-QCon/act3.html (only level 3 can actually be called "RESTful")

This also means your client code cannot have an RPC-like interface and pretend to be "RESTful" (or "consume a RESTful service").

This is not a judgement on what you wrote though, just how to call it (or not)

[marius.andreiana]

On Dec 28, 2:14 pm, Thomas Broyer <t.bro...@gmail.com> wrote:
> This is not ReST, ReST is about hypertext (HATEOAS). Using a URL per

> resource is not enough to make a service "RESTful":http://www.crummy.com/writing/speaking/2008-QCon/act3.html(only level 3 can

> actually be called "RESTful")

Thanks Thomas for pointing this out. I've added a note about this in
Additional resources. My sample is at level two, missing hyperlinks.

> This also means your client code cannot have an RPC-like interface and
> pretend to be "RESTful" (or "consume a RESTful service").

Besides that it should use the URI's received from the server via
hyperlinks, is there anything else to improve?