Restlet 1.1.0 released

Got notification from Jerome Louvel on Linkedin, that Restlet 1.1.0 was officially released on 28 th, Oct. You can check detail what's-new there.

The new Restlet-GWT module interests me most. Thanks to the GWT 1.5's support of Java 5 syntax, so by using this new Restlet-GWT, you can almost seamlessly create a restful client for both browser and normal application by using one set of code. Which means you can create only one client API for your restful application/services (what ever) and says hey this is the client of my RIA, you can use it in your GWT client which runs inside browser or use it in your Eclipse RCP client.

I have to say I haven't tried it yet. I am wondering whether it would be too heavy for a web application.

From the programming model perspective, there is no big difference between Restlet-GWT with GWT's own RequestBuilder. For pure GWT, you need to deal with plain text for both of request and response. For Restlet-GWT, there is a abstraction called Representation.

Both of them require a callback object to receive responses. One advantage is that Restlet's response is content type aware (json, xml).