Rest as a boring servlet
A coworker whipped up a generic REST interface for any Ruby on Rails activerecord (data model). What he described (in 5 minutes) was a nice implementation. I wanted see how the generic django REST interface was coded. http://code.google.com/p/django-rest-interface/ I was pleasantly surprised to realize that they Python developers simply used the normal form processing to handle rest and didn’t invent a new paradigm. On an early project we tried to implement RESTlet for a java based REST application. Under load we saw some strange problems and the code was reverted to normal servlets without too much pain. ...