Restlet server extension based on Netty

RestletExtensionNetty is a Restlet server extension that is providing REST capabilities on top of Netty.

Restlet is a powerfull REST framework that is not relaying on Servlet specification. It allows you to develop REST servers and clients very easy. See more details at: http://www.restlet.org
Netty is is an effort to provide an asynchronous event-driven network application framework and tools for rapid development of maintainable high performance and high scalability protocol servers and clients.In other words, Netty is a NIO client server framework which enables quick and easy development of network applications such as protocol servers and clients. More information on Netty site: http://jboss.org/netty/

RestletExtensionNetty is build on top of Netty HTTP codec, providing both HTTP and HTTPS connectors to Restlet.

Current code is part of Restlet 2.0 M6

Let me know how it works for you.

Java SE 6 platform provides a new API that helps you find, load, and use service providers. This API was part of the platform from version 1.3 but was not public.

There is a good introduction in this API on Sun Developer Network site - Creating Extensible Applications With the Java Platform.

Trying to get advantages of this new API in RAP based application, where service providers are developed as components and build with Maven, I found that there no hint/tip regarding how to create the Manifest information to publish the information needed by Service Loader API to find service providers in ClassPath.

Service Components that are part of RAP application are following standard Maven code organization structure. The easiest way to publish service information is to create a new folder name META-INF under src/main/resources. Under META-INF you can create the services folder. Services folder is the one that Service Loader API is using to identify service providers. The introductory tutorial mention above describe how to create the meta information for service provider.