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Building web services on Equinox and Restlet #3

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After having implemented the server application, we want to prepare ourselves for future changes. We want to be able to add new services to our application without impacting existing ones. We also may want to change the structure of the URIs in case they are not cool.

To do so, we’ll create extension points and the supporting code for the Restlet types used and contribute our implementations and see how that this helps us making our application more flexible and maintainable.

We’ll learn how to define an extension point, how to contribute to it and how to work with the contributions.


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Written by Wolfgang Werner

May 5th, 2010 at 1:09 am