0 to RestFul Resource in 17seconds.

Lets see some rails people figure out how to do this as dead simply as in spring-roo on java.

spring-roo commands:

mkdir myrestful_resource
cd myrestful_resource
roo
project --topLevelPackage com.my.web.my.restful.resources
persistence setup --provider HIBERNATE --database HYPERSONIC_IN_MEMORY
entity --class ~.domain.Resource1
field string --fieldName myfirstfield
field string --fieldName mysecondfield
controller all --package ~.controllers
osgi start --url http://spring-roo-addons.googlecode.com/files/net.tzolov.httprepresentations.roo.addon-1.1.7.jar
http resource representation setup
http resource add oxm --class ~.domain.Resource1
exit


json/html conversion works out of the box without modification however you need to annotate the model objects you want converted to xml by jaxb with @XmlRootElement so it knows what you want returned.

vi src/main/java/com/my/web/my/restful/resources/domain/Resource1.java



mvn tomcat:run

open up http://localhost:8080/resources in your browser and create some data on the auto-generated controllers.

access it via your browser or curl by simply appending .json .xml extensions to the url.

curl http://localhost:8080/resources/resource1s/1.json
curl http://localhost:8080/resources/resource1s/1.xml
curl http://localhost:8080/resources/resource1s/1.html

Pow!

also check out this springsource post about hitting json rest based services with curl.
http://www.springsource.org/roo/guide?w=base-json