Dynamic Web Development with Seaside

24.6Advices and Conclusion

This chapter shows that while Seaside provides a powerful way to build dynamic application using a stateful approach, it can also seamlessly integrate with existing stateless protocols. This chapter illustrated that an object-oriented model of an application in combination with Seaside can be very powerful: You can develop flexible web interfaces as composable Seaside components, and you can easily enrich them with an API for interoperability with REST clients. Seaside provides you with the best of all worlds: the power of object-design, the flexibility and elegance of Seaside components, and the integration of traditional HTTP architectures.

A piece of advice:

  • Do not use cookies with a REST service. Such service should respect the stateless philosophie of HTTP. Each request should be independent of others.
  • During the development, organize your tagged methods following the HTTP commands: (GET, POST, PUT, DELETE, HEAD). You can use protocols to access them faster.
  • A good service web should be able to produce different types of contents depending on the capabilities of the clients. Been able to produce different formats such as plain text (text/plain), XML (text/xml), or JSON (text/json) increases the interoperability of your web services.

You should now have a better understanding of the possibilities offered by Seaside-REST and be ready to produce nice web services.

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