Topic: Restlet

Restlet Ported to GWT

Dietrich Kappe, Thursday, July 31, 2008 @ 9:03 pm

If you want to communicate with the server in GWT, you have GWT-RPC and you have JSON (and in fact a few different flavors of JSON). If, however, you pine for the elegance of a RESTful interface, you've had to roll your own.

Now the folks at the Restlet project have ported the Restlet API to GWT.

Thanks to the support for generics in GWT 1.5 RC1, we were able to achieve this port with reduced efforts and limited troubles. We had to get rid of the server-side features that don’t make sense in a browser, and of the APIs like NIO and logging that aren’t emulated by GWT. The major impact was the adaptation of the API to the asynchronous communication imposed by AJAX and GWT.

So now you can make much easier use of RESTful back ends. If you've been working with Rails or Grails, you won't have to ask why RESTful backends are good. If you want a quick intro to Restlets, see this quickstart.

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