REST WADL - tools and information

I'm interested to use REST or REST-like web services within a traditional thick client (as well as AJAX web apps) - using WADL to describe them (from existing services) and tools to automatically generate client API code (in a variety of languages).

Standards:

• JAX-RS (JSR 311)

Digging around, I come across some interesting articles and blogs, including:

REST Describe and REST Compile:

Thomas Steiner's blog http://blog.tomayac.de/index.php?date=2007-03-12&time=17:11:27&perma=Automatic+Multi+Lang.html describing two tools to be developed.

• The REST describe and REST compile project report http://docs.google.com/View?docid=dgdcn6h3_38fz2vn5
• A working on-line example of REST describe http://tomayac.de/rest-describe/latest/RestDescribe.html
• REST compile/describe screen cast http://youtube.com/user/tomayac
• Tech talk video on the tools http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZ2EtAEBpq0

Java.Net resources:

• Glassfish - Jersey - Java.Net WADL project https://jersey.dev.java.net/what-is-jersey.html
• The wadl2java tool https://wadl.dev.java.net/

Other resources and blogs:

http://blogs.msdn.com/dotnetinterop/archive/2008/02/06/wadl-and-wsdl-and-rest-oh-my.aspx

An article on REST WADL http://searchsoa.techtarget.com/tip/0,289483,sid26_gci1265367,00.html

Blog by William Martinez Pomares with interesting follow up discussion http://acoscomp.com/wblog//index.php/a/2007/06/10/wadl_rest_and_wsdl


REST Describe and REST Compile tools:

Trying the on-line REST Describe on an existing web service I'd published previously showed promising results.

The current status of REST Compile is that is supports:

• Java
• PHP5
• Ruby
• Python

but .Net is not provided as yet.