Rick Jeliffe just posted a blog entry entitled "Objects at REST" on xml.com, found here: http://tinyurl.com/2oqrzm where he proposes exposing objects using...
... But isn't it somehow the other way round? I'd say that a POST to /validator/username/ creates a new sub-resource of this resource? I thought GET shouldn't...
To paraphrase Woody Allen: "Everything you always wanted to know about HTTP headers status, but were afraid to ask" Alternatively: "An activity diagram to...
Hi, I want to allow some external application (that has appropriate permissions) to create a new password for a certain user (user forgot his password)....
... I agree, but am concerned that the OO modellers/architects will just design their models the way they always have, and then try to slap the REST layer on ...
Here's a common scenario that I've never fully understood how to model RESTfully. I've got articles in the system, and when I first add them they're in draft...
I am happy to announce the immediate availability of WizTools.org RESTClient 2.1 version: http://rest-client.googlecode.com/ This release focuses on usability...
Hello, Not sure if this really belong here, but... Anyone has some opinion about using "URL as UI" [1]? Here is a little concoction, a wiki engine, which tries...
Hi, I just thought that I would ping the group to let you know that I have started giving a talk on the new ASP.NET MVC Framework in which I reference REST: ...
Hi there, I'm trying to find an elegant way of processing the URI so that it follows RESTful ideas and allows me to make changes in the future. From what I...
This is more of a design/implementation question but I'm wondering if its acceptable to include "metadata"; with the representation of a resource when the...
Hi, We're trying to redesign the way information is accessible on our site and am trying hard to stick to a REST methodology. However we have run into a few...
Hi all, Its me pavan again with one more question. I have read that SOAP 1.2 incorporated some of the REST principles but no where i got the exact material...
Thanks to everyone for your advice and thoughts on best practices around REST. It helped me enormously in navigating the design space for our open source REST...
Hi Folks, How does a search engine access web content that requires a query string in the URL? For example, I typed "cellphones" into Google and one of the...
Hi all, My name is Pavan, I am a masters students and starting my thesis on REST. I will start using Java to built a web service with REST. Please let me know...
All, I was thinking that a common impedance to discussions on this group can be a lack of reference to what has already been said ... Given that, I have just...
Hi all, My name is Gaurang, and i am B.E. student started recently my thesis on REST. I started searching on net for REST ,i m try to implement web services in...
Planning for the 2.1 release of RESTClient ( http://code.google.com/p/rest-client/ ), and we have run out of creativity! Requesting features that you need for...
Roy, The third of the questions arising from the "commentary" exercise is: You refer [1][2] to two HTTP headers that I am unfamiliar with: Alternates and URI....
See http://blog.ianbicking.org/2008/01/12/what-php-deployment-gets-right/ <excerpt> With the recent talk on the blogosphere about deployment (and for Django,...
Roy, The fourth of the questions arising from the "commentary" exercise is: You say [1]: "[…] Authoring, for example, should always be performed on a...
Roy, The second of the questions arising from the "commentary" exercise is: You mentioned [1] that there is work 'underway' on the usage of OPTIONS. Is any of...
Roy, The first of the questions which I felt needed clarification arising from the "commentary" exercise is: You have stated clearly that REST is not limited...
I've read the various threads on exposing batch resources that accept multiple representations (for different resources). I am just curious to know if there is...
I've been too busy to follow what's been going on here recently. However, I just ahd this amusing discussion with 30boxes and I thought I'd copy the list in: ...
Does anyone see issues with exposing a resource as write-only? If a resource is write-only, should the design be revisited? I read somewhere that its good...
