Re: [Exist-builds] eXist REST

[Adam R. <ad...@ex...>]

2009/12/22 Lukas Lewandowski <luk...@un...>:
> Hi eXist team,
>
> I'm new in web services and i'm interested especially in RESTful WS.
>
> eXist offers REST, XML-RPC and SOAP as possible HTTP layer. Which of
> them is the most used within eXist and it's HTTP users? Are RESTful WS
> becoming a competitive to SOAP WS?
>
> Since last year, October 2008, a JSR-311 Java specification - JAX-RS -
> occurred.  JAX-RS specifies the way RESTful WS have to be in Java. Did
> you considered this specification or it's reference implementation
> Jersey for eXist?

Lukas, I am somewhat familiar with Jersey outside of an eXist context.
At this years XML Summer School I attended a presentation by Marc
Hadley and managed to also have a chat with him about Jersey and how
we might be able to integrate it into eXist.

I previously undertook a piece of work which is in the
tools/SOAPServer folder of eXist, which allows you to automagically
serve up individual XQuery functions from a function module as SOAP
Web Services. It has always been on my mind to develop this work
further and add support for REST as well. After talking with Marc I
did a bit of research and discovered Apache CXF, this single framework
offers both SOAP and REST support and it was my intention to integrate
this with eXist as a replacement for the SOAP Server. This would allow
us to easily serve up XQuery functions as both SOAP and REST Web
Services.

Unfortunately I have not had a great deal of time, and really only
started looking through the Apache CXF code to understand where I
needed to place the hooks.


Is this something you are interested in?

p.s. the exist-development list, is a better forum for this than the
exist-builds list.



> Thank you in advance for answering my questions.
>
> Best regards & merry Xmas
> Lukas
>
>
> Lukas Lewandowski
> Distributed Systems Group
> Universität Konstanz
>
>
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