Just FYI to anyone who is interested, the project page for RESTEasy is up here and the sources are now in Subversion on Source Forge. Please keep in mind that that this is very much a work in progress.

One nice feature of RESTEasy is its support for URI Templates. The URI Template spec defines a means of embedding variables in the URI. So the following URI Template:

http://somehost/contacts/{contactId}

Could return an XML document for a contact where the contactId=234:

http://somehost/contacts/234

In this example, we might be executing the following Java method:

@HttpMethod(”GET”)
public Contact getContactById(@URLParam(”contactId”) Long contactId) {
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For the past few months, I have been mucking around with an idea for a RESTful Web Services framework I call RESTEasy. The project was inspired by the JAX-WS API and some of the work done by the WADL project. Yesterday, I noticed this post on Marc Hadley’s Blog regarding JSR-311. I thought I’d [...]

I ran across this image on Digg:

Brilliant!

Bit keeps getting better and better! Apple could probably have a lot of fun with this idea.

So Jim Samples resigned from the Cartoon Network over the knee-jerk reaction made by the city of Boston over the ridiculous ad campaign launched by Interference Inc. The resignation is pretty sad actually since Jim most likely wasn’t directly responsible for the drama. This stunt took place in several other cities as well did [...]