How popular is restlet?

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user1923152 picture user1923152 · Dec 22, 2012 · Viewed 12.7k times · Source

I'm selecting a framework for restful service. Restlet looks promising. However, I'd like to pick something that's mainstream enough that it won't go out of support/development too soon. I know restlet has been around for quite some years. However, I'd like to know if it's popular enough. My questions are,

  1. Any big name companies using it?
  2. Is the default http server good enough for production?

thanks

Answer

Jerome Louvel picture Jerome Louvel · Dec 23, 2012

The Restlet Framework has been available since 2005 when it was the first RESTful web framework for Java. It has support for the JAX-RS API, but its own Restlet API is both client and server-side since day one, much more comprehensive and extensible. We are free to innovate based on our community feed-back, without having to go through lengthy JCP standardization processes.

Also, we just published the 'Restlet in Action' book last September along with its version 2.1. Our internal connector is fully asynchronous and based on NIO and we are constantly stabilizing it even though it isn't ready for heavy productions yet (use the Jetty connector or a Java EE container with no change to your Restlet application).

Its consistent support for Java SE/EE, OSGi, Android, GAE and GWT with dedicated editions is unique. A port to JS (Node.js + AJAX) is also under way. We have also started work on version 2.2 with the first milestone being released (with full Java 6 support, OAuth 2.0 extension based on the final spec, etc.).

In term of references, we have many large companies using it including LinkedIn (see their GLU open source project), IBM, NVidia, ForgeRock, NASA, Sonatype, Apache Camel, Mule ESB, etc. Google has been using it internally as well. See some quotes here: http://restlet.com/discover/quotes

In January, we'll launch a new community web site as well as APISpark, an all-in-one platform to create, host, manage and use web APIs, directly based on Restlet Framework (PaaS), so the project is active and has an exciting future!

Best regards,

Jerome Louvel

PS: I'm the Restlet Framework creator and lead developer.

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