Showing posts with label REST Compile. Show all posts
Showing posts with label REST Compile. Show all posts

Wednesday, 21 May 2008

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.


Java.Net resources:

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.