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Octo Technology recommends Restlet to increase productivityDecember 30 2008

On the French IT market, Octo Technology is a top consulting company, specialized in software architecture. Since its creation in 1998, it has regularly shaped the technology landscape through their famous white papers.

Octo Technology

In 2007, they showed a clear understanding of REST by publishing “Web Services: Architectural Choices” (in French) by Philippe Mougin. The latest in the series is  a “Java Productivity Primer” (in English) detailing “Twelve guidelines to boost your productivity with a software factory”.

In their first guideline, “Adopt a productive Java platform that’s tailored for your project(s)”, they warn against bloated commercial platforms and propose an example of a state-of-the-art, low-cost Java platform which includes Restlet to develop their Web services.

octo-stack

They say they really like Restlet because the “framework is built for the


Cartoon presents RestletNovember 25 2008

On the 4th of November, I presented a session on REST, Restlet and our port to GWT at the local JUG (Paris Java User Group). More than 200 juggers attended, with a first part on GWT presented by Didier Girard, from onGWT.

Eric Le Merdy, from Valtech, very creatively illustrated the presentation. Here is our first Restlet cartoon!

jug

Thanks to Antonio Goncalves, David Dewalle and Zouheir Cad, the co-founders of Paris JUG for organizing this event. Keep up the fun, the passion and the professionalism!

Here are additional links about the event (all in French):


Restlet 1.1.0 released !October 28 2008

Since the launch of Restlet 1.0 in April 2007, we have been working hard to prepare this new version. To protect your investment in existing code, we have maintained the initial API design, extending it where necessary and always ensuring a direct if not transparent migration path.

Here is a selection of the most exciting new features:

  • Broader and deeper HTTP support with features such as partial downloads, resumable uploads or content integrity validation.
  • Best support for the WADL specification in the industry, allowing an automatic and always in sync documentation of your REST APIs. WADL documents can be generated in XML or converted on the fly to HTML using the popular stylesheet from Yahoo!
  • One of the first and most complete implementations of the new JAX-RS 1.0 specification provided for those preferring an annotation-oriented approach.
  • New Restlet-GWT module provided, porting the client-side of the Restlet API to the popular Google Web Toolkit 1.5 JavaScript platform, allowing you to invoke RESTful applications right from your Web browser.
  • New extensions for easier integration with the JAXB 2.1, JiBX 1.1, Spring 2.5, OAuth, OSGi, Oracle XDB and SSL technologies.
  • Improved support for Atom Syndication XML format and for Atom Publishing Protocol. Both formatting and parsing are now available.
  • New POP3 connector based on JavaMail to access RESTfully to remote mail boxes.
  • New Gri

Restlet 1.1 RC2 releasedSeptember 24 2008

Release 1.1 RC2 is out, with all known bugs in Restlet closed (more than 20 fixed!). Please help us test this build while be work on the documentation tasks for the final 1.1 release.

Here is a summary of the main changes:

  • Added support for HTTP authentication in Restlet-GWT module and fixed compilation issues.
  • Fixed socket closing issues with internal HTTP server connector.
  • Fully stabilized the Grizzly HTTP server connector.
  • Fixed regression with SpringHost due to context refactoring.
  • Fixed class-loading regressions.
  • WADL extension now properly supports nested resources.
  • Updated db4o to version 7.4.58.
  • Updated FreeMarker to version 2.3.14.
  • Updated JAX-RS API to version 0.11.
  • Updated GWT to version 1.5.2 (final).

Direct contributors:
  • Alexander Koppelhuber
  • Alexei Sokolov
  • Bruno Dumon
  • Carlos Alexandre Moscoso
  • Christoph Korn
  • Doug Alcouffe
  • Emblem Parade
  • John Logdson
  • Marcelo Ochoa
  • Paolo Borelli
  • Rasmus Agerholm
  • Rob Heittman
  • Roman Geus
  • Stephan Koops
  • Tamas Cservenak
  • Vincent Ricard

Changes log:


Restlet 1.1 RC1 releasedAugust 19 2008

It’s been about two weeks since 1.1 M5 was released and we have already made tremendous progress. We are happy to release 1.1 RC1. Most serious bugs were fixed (more than 10) and all pending features where completed.

Here is a summary of main changes:

  • Chunked encoding issues in Grizzly and internal connectors were all fixed. Extensive tests with large entities done (size of 30 Mb).
  • Grizzly was updated to version 1.8.4 and has reached a much more stable state. It gives unparalleled performance for serving static files thanks to direct NIO transfer from file to socket!
  • Performance of internal HTTP connectors was vastly improved, coming close to other connectors in term of throughput for large entities (scalability not tested). It is the easiest choice for development purpose.
  • Significant improvements and stabilization made for the WADL extension.
  • Major refactoring of logging to have more consistency and a better organization for logger names. Updated the logging documentation on the wiki to facilitate usage. Added a TraceHandler to display the logger names of all log records in the console to simplify configuration, especially for third party libraries.
  • Completed support for partial GETs and partial PUTs in the FILE client connector.
  • Completed support for representation digests