[Simpleweb-Support] Using Simple vs using Restlet

[Paul J. L. <pau...@ma...>]

I want to implement a small, embedded web server that does the  
following things:

1. Implements a subset of WebDAV-like functionality, i.e., GET, PUT,  
DELETE, COPY, and MOVE requests.

2. Implements a "metadata" service that gets/puts the metadata for  
image files, e.g., a request of the form:

	 GET /metadata/path/to/image.jpg

will return the metadata of the image as an XML document and PUT will  
put it back.

3. Implements an "image manipulation" service driven by various  
parameters, e.g.:

	GET /image/path/to/image.jpg&maxdim=100

would create a smaller version of the image whose maximum dimension is  
100 pixels.  Optionally, the smaller image may be cached on the server  
at a different URL in which case the server would responsd with a "303  
See Other" status code and the URL of the smaller image.

I had been looking at the Restlet framework for doing all of this,  
but, while powerful, it seems overly complicated and doesn't have  
enough documentation about the "right" way to do things.  As you may  
know, Restlet requires a web server framework in top of which to  
operate.  I was using Restlet on top of Simple.  But then I began to  
wonder if I could do implement the stuff I need using Simple directly  
and not have to deal with the Restlet framework.

Is this reasonable?

- Paul