Bill the Plumber

After a few months RESTEasy 1.2.GA is finally ready.  This is mostly a cleanup, bug fix, and refactoring release, but here are some features of note:

• Guice 2.0 support.  Thanks Mike Brackx!
• Initial OAuth integration. Still a bit of a prototype, but we’re moving forward with this very soon.  Thanks Stef Epardaud!
• Link header support in client and server framework.
• Annotation triggered string parameter unmarshallers.
• Expanded examples to compliment my upcoming O’Reilly book on JAX-RS.
• Added Apache Client 4.0 support.  It seems a bit quirky and slow compared to 3.1.  I’d be curious to hear others experiences.
• Pluggable client exception handling support.  Thanks Lincoln Baxter!!!

I’d also like to thank Attila Kiraly for fixing some bugs that cropped up in Multipart and XOP support.  Pascal de Kloe, a new committer, also helped refactor content negotiation to support charset variants.  Solomon Duskis continues to be a seasoned veteran and helps with bugs and features here and there.

What’s next?  I’d like to focus next on getting complete OAuth support in.  I think it will help out our REST-* efforts as we look to secure the services we’re defining there.  RESTEasy is also going to expand beyond a simple JAX-RS implementation.  As JBoss projects like HornetQ, jBPM, Drools, Transactions, and Infinispan obtain RESTful interfaces, I’ll be creating a REST profile under the RESTEasy umbrella.

Useful links:

• Download 1.2.GA
• Release Notes: 1.2.GA and 1.2.RC1
• Documentation
• Migration guide