Restlet Framework 2.1 M3 and 2.0.6 released March 31, 2011
Posted by Jerome Louvel in NIO, Restlet, Restlet Releases, SDC, SIP.1 comment so far
Past months have been very intense for Noelios in a positive way and we are pleased to release those two new versions today. Our long running effort to develop our own non-blocking NIO connector into Restlet core, comparable in performance to Jetty/Netty/Grizzly but simpler and directly aligned to HTTP/SIP transport semantics is starting to give great results.
First, the 2.0.6 version fixes a couple of issues on the stable branch. In addition, version 2.1 Milestone 3 contains several major enhancements and new features summarized below.
Main changes
- Support for GWT 2.2 has been added, but due to breaking changes inside GWT core API, we couldn’t maintain compatibility with previous versions of GWT. If you can’t upgrade your GWT version, you can still rely on the 2.0 branch of Restlet.
- Stabilized the built-in SIP and HTTP client and server connectors based on our non-blocking NIO core layer, refactoring the previous design and fixing many bugs. This should solve most issues related to blocked connections and infinite loops that were encountered. See this blog post for an official announce.
- Added a new SDC extension providing a client connector for the Google Secure Data Connector protocol compatible with the official SDC agent. This allows usage of this feature during development phases as well as for deployment to private clouds and other public clouds such as Amazon EC2 and Microsoft Azure. See this blog post for an official announce.
- Improved ClientResource class by adding several properties
- requestEntityBuffering, responseEntityBuffering properties to make transient entities reusable (retry attempts, chunk encoding issues with GAE, response entity reuse)
- maxRedirects property to prevent infinite redirects, in addition to the existing infinite loop detection.
- Added an easy to listener mechanism that facilitates the support of asynchronous representation consumption. We tested this feature successfully by consuming live feeds from CouchDB.
- Updated several dependencies including Jetty to version 7.3.0 and Jackson to version 1.7.1
Recent contributors
- Andreas Taube
- Carolyn Duby
- Charlie Mason
- Henry Story
- Guido Schmidt
- John Logsdon
- Kristoffer Gronowski
- Leandro Oliveira
- Olivier Miel
- Phil Dunks
- Sebastien Gaide
Thanks to all others who helped us in various ways for this third milestone.
Additional resources
Changes log:
http://www.restlet.org/documentation/2.0/jse/changes
http://www.restlet.org/documentation/2.1/jse/changes
Download links:
http://www.restlet.org/downloads/
Maven repositories:
http://maven.restlet.org
Restlet Framework unifies VoIP and Web applications March 31, 2011
Posted by Jerome Louvel in Restlet, SIP.1 comment so far
Introduction
Noelios Technologies is proud to announce the release of Restlet Framework version 2.1 Milestone 3, its leading RESTful web framework for Java. This version includes stable client and server connectors for SIP (see specifications and user guide section), the core protocol for VoIP applications that were co-developed with NetDev.
NetDev’s point of view
NetDev is a provider of carrier-grade voice applications for communications service providers. We were one of the first companies to introduce RESTful web services into the telecoms space over three years ago. Back then we were looking for a lightweight method to communicate between services over the web and had previously used SOAP, which was heavy, cumbersome and difficult to understand. We found Restlet, with an architectural style true to the web, and began using it for provisioning and reporting of our applications. We soon extended its use for call control within the NetDev Audio Conferencing solution.
We’ve always been innovators and we got to thinking about how we could improve our customer proposition and reach new market segments, ultimately with the aim of winning more business. That’s when we started looking at a solution for VoIP deployments that could open up our applications to different customers. We considered using an Open Source SIP stack, but we were passionate about Restlet and that’s when we started talking to Noelios about adding SIP. For the project to be a success we needed Restlet to provide greater capacity, higher throughput and prove that our applications could run on it.
After many months work, the release of version 2.1 M3 represents the stabilisation of SIP Restlet and it’s a great achievement. At NetDev we have been working to port our Audio Conferencing Application from our existing container environments to Restlet. We’re delighted that this has now been achieved. We have successfully emulated all features in Restlet that were available in our previous software container. Not only that, but we’ve removed complexity and made development and deployment of applications simpler and much more economical.
For VoIP deployments we now have a suite of applications which don’t rely on commercial third party software or license fees and that’s going to open up new business opportunities for us. Essentially, we can offer cost effective, turnkey voice applications to any communications service provider with VoIP connectivity. We can also, through partnerships, pursue our cloud services offer, create new business models (revenue share & pay as you grow) because we have an efficient way to deliver our standard services. Of course, we will still work with our existing partners for customer deployments, but we now have the opportunity to address the markets that were previously closed to us.
Jointly with Noelios, we have brought Restlet into the telecoms world and have proved that its flexible architecture is easy to adapt in a new domain. In effect Restlet is now an Open Source, converged voice and web container, which we think is a great thing for telecoms. We will continue to jointly innovate with Noelios and encourage other telecoms companies to do the same!
Noelios’s point of view
Noelios is a provider of open source web middleware, specialized in the REST architecture style and web APIs. We created the open source Restlet Framework 6 years ago and are leading its development with the support of our community. We have an active community, including independent developers as well as large organizations such as Google, IBM, Microsoft, Ericsson Research or the NASA.
We offer consulting services, technical support and legal protection to Restlet users all over the world. This includes co-development services for customers willing to sponsor and collaborate with Noelios in order to bring new features in Restlet. In this regard, NetDev has been exemplary, leveraging the full range of our offer and understanding the economics of open source software development.
We have been working with them for 3 years, initially on their RESTful web services needs and progressively became knowledgeable about the VoIP world, its strong performance requirements and its core SIP protocol for which NetDev collaborates with the best industry experts.
The Restlet/SIP connector that we co-developed with NetDev opens new doors for usage of Restlet beyond its Web roots and reinforces its position as a unified development framework. This project which is available in the new 2.1 M3 version, adds a great value to our technology.
We are delighted to open Restlet to the telecom world with NetDev and encourage other companies to join our community and develop an ecosystem around this foundation as an alternative to traditional, complex and heavier SIP stacks such as JAIN SLEE and SIP Servlets, keeping alignment with Internet standards, lightweight, simplicity and performance as key characteristics!
Contributors
We would also like to thank other contributors that helped during the Restlet SIP specifications phase:
- Vincent Nonnenmacher (TelNowLedge)
- Kristoffer Gronowski (Ericsson Research)
“Restlet in Action” book progressing in MEAP March 3, 2011
Posted by Jerome Louvel in Ecosystem, Noelios, Restlet General.1 comment so far
Overview
When we launched our “Restlet in Action” book project via the Manning Early Access Program (MEAP), we knew we had a long road ahead. This effort has been a source of intense work, an opportunity to step back, take the user seat and exchange in new ways with our community. For example, we have already been through two external reviews and had very regular discussions with readers in the book forum.
The book is now expected to go for printing during Summer 2011, synchronized with the release of Restlet Framework 2.1.0 version. Note that the book will cover both 2.0 and 2.1 versions of Restlet.
Recently, we have published the first two parts of the book, including the first 8 chapters in a total of 12. As it stands, the book already provides very valuable information for both Restlet newcomers and more experienced developers. In addition to presenting the technology we also provide guidance on how to design a RESTful web API, a very hot topic nowadays.
Roadmap
Our immediate priority is to write chapter 9 and finish the edition of chapter 10 in order to release them on MEAP in the coming weeks. Like chapter 7 on security which was contributed by Bruno Harbulot, those two new chapters covering Restlet usage with browsers, mobile devices and cloud platforms are being contributed by Thierry Templier, an experienced writer and engineer that will join our company, Noelios Technologies, next month (welcome to Thierry the Second!).
Over the past weeks, a second review of the manuscript was completed thanks to the help of about 10 external reviewers. We received very detailed feed-back, with many suggestions for improvements and corrections. As a result, we have established a thorough action plan containing about 50 action items that we intend to address. We have also addressed the easier comments on the fly by fixing the manuscript like we generally do with feed-back received via this book forum.
The next priority will be to work on this action plan and in parallel write the two other remaining chapters on “Embracing the Semantic Web” and “Looking beyond this book”. Finally, Manning will launch the printing process, including precise copy edition to improve the English prose and the general writing flow (we are not native English writers!). Thanks for your interest and support, we are almost there!
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Restlet Framework 2.0.4 and 2.1 M2 released December 24, 2010
Posted by Jerome Louvel in Restlet Releases, SIP.add a comment
To celebrate Christmas, we are happy to announce two new releases! First, the 2.0.4 version tagged “stable” and the 2.1 M2 one tagged “testing”. Note that those tags are based on the Debian release terminology.
New stable version 2.0.4
This version fixes about 20 issues related to JAX-RS, XStream, OData, ROME, Atom, Spring extensions, GWT 2.1 support as well as a content negotiation and non-persistent connection bugs.
This is the version you want to use for all your projects in production or that will go in production by mid-2011. Note that version 1.1 is no longer maintained outside our professional support plans, so we urge you to upgrade if you haven’t done so already (see migration instructions).
New Maven repository policy
Listening to regular feed-back from the community, we have decided to refresh our Maven repository daily at 7 am (GMT+1) instead of twice a month. This will facilitate testing and feed-back on ongoing developments of the version in SVN trunk, currently 2.1 snapshots.
We have also retired our private repository, so customers with professional support plans relying on this protected repository are encouraged to update their POM file to point to http://maven.restlet.org For additional instructions, please see our Maven page.
Main changes
- The logging system, based on JULI (java.util.logging), has been greatly enhanced and simplified. It is now possible to programmatically change the log level using the Engine#setLogLevel(…) and setRestletLogLevel(…) static methods. It is also possible to enable selective call logging by setting the Request#loggable property or by overriding the LogService#isLoggable(Request) method. Note that if you do provide a logging configuration file via the system properties, it will take over the programmatic configuration. Also, the new default log formatter will write each log entry in the console on a single compact line, reducing confusion while debugging.
- The TaskService has also been enhanced to support scheduled tasks execution based on the standard ScheduledExecutorService interface.
- New EncoderService added to automatically compress entities sent on both the client and the server side. Note that is turned off by default and that a minimum size and applicable media types can be defined. Note that the DecoderService now also works on the client-side.
- Added server-side support for Amazon Web Services (S3) authentication.
- Added a ConfidentialAuthorizer in the org.restlet.security package to limit access to resources via secure protocols such as HTTPS.
- Added a new SIP extension providing support for the Session Initiation Protocol, largely used for voice over IP. This new extension, available in the Java SE, Java EE and Android editions, ships both client and server SIP connectors over TCP, reusing the NIO/HTTP internal connector engine as SIP is a cousin of HTTP, providing excellent scalability and performance. We will cover this new features in more details in an upcoming blog post. For now, you can read the Restlet/SIP specifications page.
- Various bug fixes and optimizations were made on the new NIO/HTTP connector, covering TCP socket reuse, buffer overflow issues and IO buffer size configuration.
For those waiting for new content of the Restlet in Action book, we are currently handling the comments made by our editor on the initial drafts submitted. We should have chapter 8 and 10 sent to the MEAP subscribers early in January.
Recent contributors
- Alex Bass
- Bruno Gieder
- David Fogel
- Eric Hough
- Florian Bucklers
- George Calm
- Guido Schmidt
- Jean-Philippe Steinmetz
- Jim Stabile
- John Logsdon
- Kristoffer Gronowski
- Mark Thornton
- Phil Dunks
- Rhett Sutphin
- Rickard Oberg
- Simon Temple
- Tim Peierls
- Tom Andersson
Thanks to all others who helped us in various ways for this second milestone, especially NetDev for funding a large part of the new SIP connector and helping with testing and challenging use cases !
Additional resources
Changes log:
http://www.restlet.org/documentation/2.0/jse/changes
http://www.restlet.org/documentation/2.1/jse/changes
http://www.restlet.org/downloads/
Maven repositories:
http://maven.restlet.org
Restlet Framework 2.1 M1 released November 7, 2010
Posted by Jerome Louvel in NIO, Restlet Releases.4 comments
This month we are celebrating 5 years of Restlet open source development! Version 0.9 beta was the first public release made on November 2005.
Five years later, we still feel on the right path : leveraging REST to fully embrace the Web as the new development platform. We are still in the middle of the journey, with an exciting road ahead including the cloud computing, the rise of the mobile web and the upcoming HTML 5 standard.
Updated version tags
Today, we released the first milestone of version 2.1, our new “testing” version, as well as version 2.0.3 which is becoming our new “stable” version recommended for production. As a consequence, the 1.1 branch is still available for download here but has been archived.
We now encourage all developers to migrate to the latest greatest 2.0 branch for new deployments (see these instructions first). For new development projects, we encourage the usage of version 2.1 M1 which benefits from the stability of branch 2.0 for most parts, and adds new exciting features.
Main changes
- All features deprecated in version 2.0 were completely removed, reducing the framework footprint
- Brand new internal HTTP connector (client and server) based on non-blocking NIO with initial performance close to extension connectors based on Apache HTTP Client 4.0 and Eclipse Jetty 7.1. This connector has already been significantly tested under load, with large entities and is fully configurable
- Removed the Grizzly and Netty extensions considered as experimental in version 2.0 to focus on our lighter NIO connector
- Representation class can now notify a listener of asynchronous content availability (ready to be read) or delivery (ready to be written). This has been tested to asynchronously receive CouchDB notifications
- Added support for GWT 2.1. Support for GWT 2.0 has been removed due to changes in GWT internal APIs, but is still supported in the 2.0 branch
Roadmap
Here is a summary of the planned features and tasks for version 2.1.0 which is scheduled for 2011 Q2:
- Finish the writing of the Restlet in Action book published by Manning
- Add a SIP connector extension based on the new NIO internal connector, providing a modern VoIP foundation for convergent web applications
- Enhance the ConverterService to support direct conversion between representations, from beans to representations and between beans
- Add a ConnegService to configure HTTP content negotiation and allow its customization. One use case is the negotiation between web representations of a resource based on agent type such as desktop browser and mobile browser
- Better integration with Eclipse ecosystem, with support for model-driven REST via extensions for EMF, ATL and Acceleo
- Migration from Tigris to JIRA Studio for SVN hosting, issue tracker, code search, code review, continuous build, etc.
For more information on this roadmap, you can check this wiki page for content details and this main site page for schedule details.
Recent contributors
- Alex Milowski
- Alexander Kampmann
- Alois Cochard
- Avi Flax
- Brian Cabana
- Bruno Harbulot
- Christophe Vanfleteren
- Daniel Zhelyazkov
- Darin Jackson
- David Fogel
- Doug Smalley
- Dustin Jenkins
- Evan Wang
- Fabian Mandelbaum
- Giovani Pieri
- Jean-Luc Geering
- John Logdson
- Laurent Rustuel
- M. Maksin
- Marc Portier
- Michael Terrington
- Nicolas Rinaudo
- Olivier Miel
- Olivier Monaco
- Rob Kooper
- Tal Liron
- Tim Peierls
- William Pietri
Thanks to all others who helped us in various ways for this first milestone, especially NetDev for funding a part of the new NIO connector and helping with testing and challenging use cases !
Additional resources
Changes log:
http://www.restlet.org/documentation/2.0/jse/changes
http://www.restlet.org/documentation/2.1/jse/changes
http://www.restlet.org/downloads/
Maven repositories:
http://maven.restlet.org is updated on the 1st and 15th of each month
http://maven.noelios.com is updated daily with new artifacts (access reserved to subscribers)
Restlet Framework 2.0.0 released ! July 19, 2010
Posted by Jerome Louvel in Restlet Releases.16 comments
Year after year, the Restlet open source project has been growing and maturing, both technically and through its lively community of users and contributors.
Today, we are proud to announce the general availability of version 2.0 of the Restlet Framework, representing about 2 years of work since version 1.1! This is truly a major release, equivalent to the initial effort that took us from the project launch to the 1.0.0 release.
What’s new ?
Restlet editions
After targeting standalone Java SE virtual machines and Java EE web containers in version 1.0, we introduced a manual port to GWT in version 1.1. During the development of version 2.0, we jumped on two new bandwagons launched by Google:
- Android for web connected smartphones and tablets
- GAE for cloud computing hosted applications
As each port required a lot of manual maintenance, we developed a special Restlet forge including a fully automated port mechanism that allows us to work on a single code base while taking into account the specificities of each target environment.
As a result, the framework is now available in five consistent editions covering the most popular Java-based platforms.
Package restructuring
While maintaining an easy migration path from version 1.1, we took the opportunity of this major release to reorganize Restlet extensions, moving “com.noelios.restlet.ext” packages into “org.restlet.ext” ones, merging the “com.noelios.restlet.jar” into a single core “org.restlet.jar” including both the Restlet API and the core engine.
Enhanced Restlet API
We completed our support for HTTP headers, mapping almost all standard ones to the Restlet API as illustrated in this mapping table and also introduced a higher level way to develop Restlet resources that works equally well on both client and server side.
Those new ServerResource and ClientResource classes support the traditional class-oriented approach previously used in Restlet and added on top of it using custom Java annotations, providing the benefits of the JAX-RS API (that we keep supporting as a Restlet extension) but with much less annotations (just 5 currently) and a rich and extensible Java API as a solid foundation.
As a result, you can use representation beans that can get automatically serialized to and from XML, JSON, GWT object, Java object formats thanks to extensions such as Jackson, XStream, JiBX or JAXB.
We also added a brand new security API that supports HTTP centric authentication and authorization in simple yet extensible way, for example with extensions for the JAAS, jSSLutils and javax.crypto APIs.
OData extension
A new extension for OData technology was added, thanks to a collaboration with Microsoft Interop teams. It provides a high-level client API based on the ClientResource class that lets you access remote OData services, typically hosted in an ASP.NET servers or on the Windows Azure cloud computing platform.
The extension contains both a code generator for the representation beans and a runtime layer. Advanced features such as projections, blobs, server-side paging, row counts, customizable feeds or version headers are supported.
RDF extension
We also want to make Restlet a great framework for building applications for the Semantic Web. The relationship between REST and RDF is perfect : the core concept of resources and their representations with REST and the expression of meaningful links between them with RDF.
This new extension contains a full RDF API, leveraging the Restlet API, and capable of processing RDF documents either in a DOM-like way or in a SAX-like way. It is also capable of writing large RDF documents is a SAX-like way. We currently support two serialization formats: RDF/XML, RDF/n3, Turtle and N-Triples. Finally, a RdfClientResource class facilitates the hypermedia navigation in the Web of Data.
Other changes
It is impossible to be exhaustive in such a post, but we have collected all major changes in our new user guide. For those interested in a more exhaustive list, there is always the changes log.
“Restlet in Action” book
Last year we have started writing a book on the Restlet Framework for Manning. It will contain 12 chapters covering all major aspects of Restlet applications development and RESTful web APIs design based on our home-grown ROA/D methodology.
Today, we released chapter 6 on documenting and versionning web APIs, as well as chapter 7 on Restlet security contributed by Bruno Harbulot. To celebrate version 2.0.0 release, Manning is offering to Restlet users a time limited 35% discount with the “rest35au” code. Happy reading!
What’s next
Today is a time to step back and thank our community of users and contributors, all readers providing feed-back on the book in the authors’ forum or during the external review and of course to our growing list of customers at Noelios Technologies, the commercial entity backing the open source project, making this open source project economically sustainable.
After nearly 5 years after the project launch, the road ahead has never been as exciting. REST is finally recognized as the best way to design web applications and distributed architectures in general.
We have already prepared a roadmap for version 2.1 which will add incremental features such as better hypermedia support, enhanced converter service, a pure JavaScript edition, production-ready internal HTTP connectors based on non blocking NIO, support for VoIP via SIP and an even better user documentation.
Your feedback, funding and continuous support will make a difference.
Best regards,
Jérôme Louvel – Founder and Technical lead
ThierryBoileau – Core developer and Community manager
Contributors since 2.0 RC4
- Aleskandr Shekhter
- Alex Milowski
- Alexander J. Perez Tchernov
- Alistair Dutton
- Bruno Harbulot
- Christopher Gokey
- David Fogel
- Dustin Jenkins
- Eric Hough
- Felix Leipold
- Giovani Pieri
- Greg Hengeli
- Guillaume Maillard
- Guillermo Vega
- Iestyn Evans
- Jeroen Goubert
- Kristoffer Gronowski
- Louis Huh
- Martin Svensson
- Rickard Oberg
- Sriram Chavali
- Tim Kuntz
- Tim Peierls
- TK Kocheran
- Valdis Rigdon
- Vassilis Touloumtzoglou
Thanks to all others who helped us in various ways during the 2.0 development!
The development of this version was funded in part by the Hauts-de-Seine department based on Noelios Technologies participation to a collaborative HD3D2 R&D project. We are grateful for their support which will also help us develop the next 2.1 version.
Additional resources
Changes log:
http://www.restlet.org/documentation/2.0/jse/changes
Download links:
http://www.restlet.org/downloads/testing
Maven repositories:
http://maven.restlet.org is updated on the 1st and 15th of each month
http://maven.noelios.com is updated daily with new artifacts (access reserved to subscribers)
Updates
- Xebia – Press review covering release of Restlet Framework 2.0 (in French)
Restlet Framework 2.0 RC4 released June 1, 2010
Posted by Jerome Louvel in Restlet, Restlet Releases.add a comment
Continuing our road towards the 2.0.0 version, the release candidate 4 is ready for testing. Since RC3 released one month ago, about 28 issues were fixed.
Main changes
- Character oriented subclasses of OutputRepresentation now extend WriterRepresentation for consistent character set handling. StringRepresentation now derives from CharacterRepresentation. This fixed several character set issues in extensions such as GWT, XStream, Jackson or JAXB.
- Status name is now returned to clients for display instead of the status description, in order to not expose internal information by default for security reasons. It is also shorter and doesn’t normally contain line feeds and carriage return forbidden characters.
- OData extension issues related to complex types generation, redirection or unnecessary client connector instantiations were fixed.
- Engine class was refactored to allow the usage of Restlet in constrained environments (such as Applets) where it is forbidden to create a new classloader.
- Security related classes (JaasVerifier, DigestAuthenticator and DigesterRepresentation) were fixed.
- Unecessary log entries under Android were removed, due to usage of BufferedReader without specifying a buffer size.
- The design of the Engine class was fixed to allow custom subclasses to be registered without systematically creating a new EngineClassLoader. This is useful when the security manager is activated. A typical use case is for running Restlet inside Applets.
- Deprecated GwtShellServletWrapper and WadlResource classes, SpringBeanFinder#getSpringBeanRouter method.
- Javadocs improvements with links to online user guide (wiki) and more detailed description of classes such as ServerResource and Finder.
- Optimization of StringRepresentation#getStream() speed by a factor 10 using the ByteArrayInputStream().
- Clarified server connector start message by displaying the protocol and the port number they are listening on.
Direct contributors
- Alex Milowski
- Bruno Harbulot
- George Calm
- Jean-Baptiste Dusseaut
- Jean-Philippe Steinmetz
- Kevin Pauli
- Marc Knaup
- Martin Krasser
- Matthew Drooker
- Myriam Leggieri
- Pierre-Yves Ricau
- Rob Heittman
- Roger Heim
- Tal Liron
- Thierry Templier
- Yang Xudong
Thanks to all others who helped us in various ways!
Additional resources
Changes log:
http://www.restlet.org/documentation/2.0/jse/changes
Download links:
http://www.restlet.org/downloads/testing
Maven repositories:
http://maven.restlet.org is updated on the 1st and 15th of each month
http://maven.noelios.com is updated daily with new artifacts (access reserved to subscribers)
GSoC and Restlet integration with Equinox May 6, 2010
Posted by Jerome Louvel in Ecosystem, Equinox, GSoC, OSGi, Restlet General.1 comment so far
Two years ago, we announced that NASA launched Restlet on the OSGi orbit by developing an integration of Restlet 1.1 with OSGi, based on Equinox extension points. This effort was presented at EclipseCon 2008 & 2009, and the code was contributed to the Ensemble project under a special license as explained by Bryan Hunt in this post. Also, listening to feed-back on OSGi from Restlet community, version 2.0 of the Restlet Framework was enhanced to ensure that all its modules and dependencies were available as good OSGi bundles.
However, even though deploying Restlet components and applications in an OSGi environment is already possible and explained in the user guide, it doesn’t take advantage of the dynamic and extensible nature of OSGi. Today, Bryan Hunt pointed me to a great tutorial written by Wolfgang Werner that nicely describes the Restlet Framework, covers its usage with Eclipse’s Plugin Development Environment (PDE) and explains how to leverage Equinox’s extension points to dynamically register Restlet components, applications and resources. See the series of posts titled “Building web services on Equinox and Restlet”: part #1, part #2 and part #3.
But wait, there is more good news as a Google Summer of Code 2010 project “Restlet integration with Equinox” was proposed by the Eclipse Foundation and just accepted by Google! Thanks to Bryan Hunt for initiating the effort, to Equinox’s development team for supporting it, including Jeff McAffer, Simon Kaegi and Scott Lewis. We also received a positive review from Benjamin Cabé, an Eclipse contributor. Thanks also to all supporters including Jeff Norris and Khawaja S Shams from NASA, Rob Heittman from Solertium and Thierry Templier.
Two students proposals were submitted, one from Rajeev Sampath and another one from Samrat Dhillon. The first one was finally selected but Samrat has offered to contribute to the project. Rajeev is a Computer Science undergraduate student from University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka, with good Java and distributed system experience as illustrated by his participation to the Epzilla project on Complex Event Processing (CEP).
I’m very happy to see this project, initiated by the Restlet community, taking shape and wish it full success. At Noelios Technologies, we will support it as co-mentor and encourage other interested parties to join and contribute. The project web site at Google Code is here… stay tuned!
Updates:
- EclipseSource – Google Summer of Code 2010 is on!
- EclipseLabs – Restlet integration with Equinox
Restlet Framework 2.0 RC3 released April 23, 2010
Posted by Jerome Louvel in Restlet Releases.add a comment
About one month after RC2, here comes a new release candidate. We fixed about 20 issues, including bugs and API problems. Final 2.0.0 version is still scheduled for the end of June 2010 and we are already quite happy about the overall stability.
In addition, Restlet Framework version 1.1.10 was released, fixing three bugs (unwanted console trace, WADL “Resource” element order and “content-length” header for range requests).
Main changes
- Thread blocking issues with the internal HTTP client connector were fixed.
- The internal HTTP client works again on the Android edition.
- Fixed issues preventing multi-threaded usage of ClientResource and dynamic client proxies.
- Fixed concurrency bug with annotated interfaces causing
405 errors (method not allowed). - HTTP proxy configuration was added to internal HTTP client connector.
- Removed lesser used MediaType constants in the GWT edition to reduce the compiled size by 6 Kb. Now using Restlet in your GWT application only adds 159 Kb of JavaScript. If you GZip your HTTP traffic, this even gets down to 65 Kb. See this issue for more optimizations ideas.
- Fixed several bugs related to HTTP DIGEST authentication.
- Fixed support of conditional processing for non-GET methods and allowed entity headers to be returned if conditions were not matched.
- “onSent” and “onResponse” callbacks now also work with synchronous HTTP connectors (Net and HttpClient extensions).
- XStream annotations are now detected and allow customization of XML and JSON representation from the representation beans.
- ServletUtils class introduced in RC2 was moved into the org.restlet.ext.servlet package. It also the easy retrieval of Servlet request and response objects from the Restlet equivalents.
Direct contributors
- Antonio Fiestas
- Bruno Harbulot
- Carsten Lohmann
- Dan Simpson
- Graham Smith
- Leigh Klotz
- Mark Drew
Thanks to all others who helped us in various ways!
Additional resources
Changes log:
http://www.restlet.org/documentation/2.0/jse/changes
Download links:
http://www.restlet.org/downloads/testing
Maven repositories:
http://maven.restlet.org is updated on the 1st and 15th of each month
http://maven.noelios.com is updated daily with new artifacts (access reserved to subscribers)
Restlet Framework 2.0 RC2 released March 30, 2010
Posted by Jerome Louvel in Restlet Releases.4 comments
Here is the second release candidate of version 2.0 of the Restlet Framework. Two weeks after RC1, the goal was to fix the blocking issues that were reported due to numerous tests from the community.
In addition, Restlet Framework version 1.1.9 was released, fixing two bugs (setting of custom server name and ISO latin 1 parsing for HTTP BASIC credentials).
Main changes
- SSL keystores configuration was adjusted for simplicity purpose
- User and Role classes now implement java.security.Principal interface. The UserPrincipal and RolePrincipal classes were removed from the JAAS extension and JaasUtils#createSubject() now also adds the ClientInfo#principals entries.
- A ServletUtils class was added to the Servlet extension with two methods to easily retrieve the Servlet request/response.
- 13 bugs were fixed including one regression with cookie headers handling, WADL/HTML generation, ResourceException not correctly propagating the status code, local conversions between representations and objects, or GWT serialization issues with nested generic types and arrays.
- Simple Framework libary was updated to version 4.1.20, fixing an SSL issue reported by Restlet users
Direct contributors
- Bruno Harbulot
- Carsten Lohmann
- Kelly McLaughlin
- Rob Heittman
- Sirthias
- Tal Liron
- Thomas Conté
- Valdis Rigdon
Thanks to all others who helped us in various ways!
Additional resources
Changes log:
http://www.restlet.org/documentation/2.0/jse/changes
Download links:
http://www.restlet.org/downloads/testing
Maven repositories:
http://maven.restlet.org is updated on the 1st and 15th of each month
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