RESTEasy and Seam
There has been some discussion lately regarding integrating JBoss Seam with RESTEasy. Jay Balunas recently made about post on his thoughts on ths subject, so I thought I’d post some of mine. For the record, I am a huge fan…
Announcing JBoss RESTEasy Beta1
In case you didn’t see Bill’s post on the subject, I wanted to let folks know that RESTEasy entered it’s first beta release as JBoss RESTEasy Beta 1. You can read more here and you can get the release here.
URI vs. URL Post Corrected
Thanks to several commenter’s who pointed out several issues with in my URI vs. URL post, I have made several revisions that post to be more correct. If you happen to be linking to that post, or citing comments from…
URI vs. URL: What’s the Difference?
Updated (1/18/2011): Because there’s still a lot of confusion, I’ve created a third post that attempts to resolve a lot of the questions from the comments on the last two posts. The new post is here. Updated (8/27/2009): I’ve created another…
Not enough is RESTful in RestFaces
I just came across a quick article on The Server Side about a JSF framework called RESTFaces. My initial reaction was “oh cool, a JSF framework that might adhere to RESTful principals.” Sadly, there isn’t much more than HTTP GET…
Goals for RESTEasy 1.0
As I’m reevaluating and retooling RESTEasy, I’m thinking about what it is going to take to reach 1.0. At a high-level, RESTEasy will provide: A Server side API as a JAX-RS Implementation A Client API similar to what I described…
Some thoughts on a JAX-RS client API
Bill Burke has just posted a bunch of really great feedback on the latest draft of the JAX-RS spec. If you haven’t had a chance to look at the spec, head over here. One thing that JSR-311 had initially chosen…
Why does the Flash Player Have Such Crappy HTTP Support?
I’ve found myself enjoying working with Adobe Flex. Flex does a lot of things really well, except its support of the HTTP protocol. Here’s a few things folks don’t know about the Flash Players HTTP support: It only support GET…
Some Thoughts on Securing Web Resources
Lately I’ve been trying to figure some figure out some new ways to define declarative security constraints to web resources. Here’s the a use case that popped into my head a while back: suppose you have a service to access…
The State of RESTEasy
It’s been a while since my last post and even longer since I blogged about RESTEasy. Or better yet, since I committed a change to the RESTEasy code base. This might have lead some to believe that RESTEasy has been…



