Posted by Maarten Winkels mid-morning: April 20th, 2011
As promised in a previous blog, I’ll devote this blog to how to extend the RESTEasy framework with support for mapping form fields on object-graphs with complex associations, like lists and maps.
These extensions have been reported to RESTEasy as two issues with patches. If you like these features, please vote for these issues.
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Posted by Maarten Winkels in the late evening: April 15th, 2011
In the java world we have been using and getting used to annotations since Java 1.5. Although there were some critical voices at first, I think most of us have come around and are using annotations now quite extensively. In my experience annotations are mostly used on POJO domain classes to configure frameworks like Hibernate, Spring and Seam and many other frameworks to be able to handle the custom objects correctly.
There are as many different approaches to this as there are implementations. In this blog I try to identify a few of the better approaches and a few of the poorer ones. The blog is not so much meant as a critique on the frameworks that the examples are taken from, but more as a guide to designing your own annotations whenever you might be faced with that task.
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Posted by Maarten Winkels in the late evening: March 18th, 2011
RESTEasy is a Framework for building RESTful applications in Java. In this blog I will show how to easily build RESTful webservices that accept data from an HTML Form. We will also explore the possibilities to extend RESTEasy to handle more complex cases.
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