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What are your favorite public REST endpoints?

There are a number of Consumer Web Services in the internet, the eBays, Yahoos, Googles, etc. A number of these use a REST architecture. The JAX-WS 2.0 specification supports REST endpoints, and, with the good integration with JAXB 2.0, we expect a very good developer experience. We would like to collect some public REST endpoints so we can test the implementation (in the JAX-WS project in the GlassFish Community) and possibly also write a few samples.

What are your favorite public REST endpoints?

Thanks, - eduard/o

Comments

• I could not find 'REST' in the specification?..

  Posted by: smesh on November 18, 2005 at 05:05 PM

• Eduardo,

  Could you expand on "The JAX-WS 2.0 specification supports REST endpoints"?
  As REST is an architecture, not a protocol, a REST application may return results as plain text, XML (conforming to any schema (or none)), binary data, or whatever else the client needs.
  Does JAX-WS place constraints on the REST endpoints it supports, and if so what are the constraints?

  Thanks,

  Graham.

  Posted by: grlea on November 20, 2005 at 03:17 PM

• 
  JAX-WS 2.0 provides easy access to the payload directly and supports HTTP as a transport. That means that it is quite easy to take some content, in many cases XML, and push it out through JAX-WS 2.0. And do the same with incoming messages. The spec also tries to make it easy to use JAXB 2.0 to do the data-binding of that payload (when it is XML) to Java objects.

  
  I am not surprised that there is not wide awareness of the ability to support REST through JAX-WS 2.0. I think we need a few demos to show it, and that is one of the reasons for collecting popular endpoints.
  

  Posted by: pelegri on November 21, 2005 at 08:23 AM

• Can I deploy RESTful web services using JAX-WS and the HTTP_BINDING. Are there any examples? Does Glassfish currently support creating a java.xml.ws.Endpoint with the XML/HTTP binding (java.xml.ws.http.HTTPBinding)?

  Posted by: khookguy on November 23, 2005 at 08:41 AM

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