[rest-practices] rest-practices purpose

[Carl Trieloff]

Scott has already looped him in.

I meet with him wednesday


On 04/15/2010 05:07 AM, Mark Little wrote:
> Please make sure to include Bill Burke in this. He's our resident REST 
> guru, lead of RESTeasy and author of one of the best REST text books 
> around. Bill is also driving the Red Hat REST-* effort, to try to 
> provide community standards around REST, with the eventual aim to take 
> them to somewhere like IETF or W3C.
>
> Mark.
>
>
> On 14 Apr 2010, at 19:31, Perry Myers wrote:
>
>> I was asked to create and moderate this list with the following 
>> purpose in
>> mind...
>>
>> We've got a lot of components in use across Red Hat and the upstream
>> communities that utilize interfaces like QMF and REST.  It would be a 
>> good
>> thing to have all of the different communities that are producing APIs
>> communicate together to make sure that these API definitions are
>> consistent in both style and usage.
>>
>> This mailing list will focus specifically on best practices for using
>> REST, since we will be providing either native REST interfaces for 
>> many of
>> our APIs or layering REST on top of other interfaces like QMF.
>>
>> One other side project is to create a generic QMF<->REST binding in 
>> Ruby.
>> Bob M. and Ted R. are leading this and can comment further.
>>
>> Welcome to the list, and if you feel there are others that should
>> participate please feel free to invite them.  This is an open and 
>> external
>> forum, as we want community observation and involvement as we develop
>> externally consumable APIs using REST.
>>
>> To start with, it might be useful for the existing folks on list that 
>> are
>> already creating (have created) REST APIs to provide a little background
>> context about their specific APIs and links to documentation on them.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Perry
>>
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