Comments on: RESTFul XML content negotiation http://bill.burkecentral.com/2008/03/05/restful-xml-content-negotitation/ tech talk radio Sat, 19 Jul 2008 13:37:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU By: Ryan J. McDonough http://bill.burkecentral.com/2008/03/05/restful-xml-content-negotitation/#comment-1834 Ryan J. McDonough Sat, 15 Mar 2008 19:14:17 +0000 http://billburke.wordpress.com/?p=99#comment-1834 MIME properties can offer a lot of flexibility, such as specifying the version. I don't know that Sun actually does anything with it, but the Java plugin specifies both the type along with the versions it supports. With that said, you could even extend this idea to support different versions of the same type. This opens up the possibility to potentially support older clients while also offering new features to updates clients, all without having to alter the services URI structure. Ryan- MIME properties can offer a lot of flexibility, such as specifying the version. I don’t know that Sun actually does anything with it, but the Java plugin specifies both the type along with the versions it supports. With that said, you could even extend this idea to support different versions of the same type. This opens up the possibility to potentially support older clients while also offering new features to updates clients, all without having to alter the services URI structure.

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]]> By: Mark Little http://bill.burkecentral.com/2008/03/05/restful-xml-content-negotitation/#comment-1822 Mark Little Fri, 07 Mar 2008 08:30:20 +0000 http://billburke.wordpress.com/?p=99#comment-1822 Hi Bill. Yes, the MIME extension does work. If I recall, we played around with this approach in <a href="http://w3objects.ncl.ac.uk/" rel="nofollow">early W3Objects work</a>, but that wasn't intentionally REST based back then. Hi Bill. Yes, the MIME extension does work. If I recall, we played around with this approach in early W3Objects work, but that wasn’t intentionally REST based back then.

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