Everything beta

Update Mar.04 Thanks to @ewolff some of the points described below are now official feature requests. One (SPR-6928) is actually scheduled in Spring 3.1 (cool!). I've updated the post and added all open tickets. Please vote! This post is somewhat a response to InfoQ's Comparison of Spring MVC and JAX-RS. Recently I have completed a migration from a JAX-RS implementation of a web service to Spring 3.0 MVC annotation-based @Controllers. The aforementioned post on InfoQ was published … read on »

In the spirit of beta I'm upgrading spincloud.com to Spring 3.0. I'm using version 2.5.6 currently but it's missing REST support and I had to use Carbonfive's REST library which worked like a charm. Now it's time to get back under Spring's fold and use their built-in REST support. Spring 3 opens the door to a lot of new features so I'm eager to try it. I'm using Maven2 to get the jars and Ant to … read on »

I like RESTful URLs. They clearly express the intent of the provided resource. We humans speak a language close to REST when we talk to The Internet.  Take a look at Google's RESTful search query, probably the most used RESTful URL ever: http://www.google.com/search?q=your-terms-of-choice in freeform language this translates to: "Google, search for this term." How about the Flickr RESTful tag cluster search service: http://api.flickr.com/services/rest/?method=flickr.tags.getClusters& api_key=a6f11b67ae348a7b3f2da0d865b8bc1d&tag=Berlin In Flickr lingo this means: "Fetch all tag clusters for the 'Berlin' tag". It doesn't take much to … read on »