[xwiki-devs] GSOC idea: RESTful XWiki

[Vincent Massol]

Definitely a good idea.

Could you please create a project page for it on
http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/GoogleSummerOfCode/ ?

Thanks
-Vincent

On Mar 4, 2008, at 9:58 AM, Fabio Mancinelli wrote:

> Hi everybody,
>
> since I've mentioned it in a previous email almost as a joke, maybe it
> could be interesting to propose it in a more serious way as a GSOC
> project.
>
> So the idea is to implement the infrastructure for exposing XWiki as a
> fully RESTful WebService for example by using RestLet. This can have
> some repercussions even on semantic features that Stèphane was
> proposing on the chat.
>
> It might be interesting to implement a separate module that leverages
> the XWiki API and exposes it in a RESTful way and build on top of it
> some semantic infrastructure. Since in this scenario everything will
> have an URI, it should be easier to leverage RDF and other semantic
> frameworks.
>
> This is just an idea to be worked on, if we are interested of  
> course :)
>
> WDYT?
>
> Cheers,
> Fabio