For those of you out there who would like to get Restlet 2.0 (currently the M5) release up integrated with your existing Spring application, hopefully this post will be of some help. I recently had to do this and unfortunately the documentation related to Spring integration on the Restlet site is scattered across various docs and some of it appears out of date. What I am describing below worked with source code straight from the Restlet SVN trunk just before the M5 release so you should be good to go if you use the M5 release (JEE edition)
First off, I am assuming you have an existing web application with a web.xml file and are using Spring. Secondly I am just trying to give you some working web.xml and the corresponding Spring configuration to get up and running. I am not explaining the details of how Restlet works as you can find that on the Restlet site.
First you will want to make sure you have the Restlet JEE 2.0 M5 edition. Make sure you grab the JEE version and not the JSE version as the latter does not include the Spring integration extension. Once downloaded extract the ZIP to a location on your drive. The JEE zip package contains a ton of Restlet Jar files. The three we care about are org.restlet.jar, org.restlet.ext.spring.jar, org.restlet.ext.servlet.jar
If you are using Maven you can add the following repository and dependencies to your POM by using the repository instructions on the Restlet site. NOTE as of today: the Restlet repository currently does NOT have the M5 release up there so you are going to manually have to add the M5 jar to your repository by doing the following for each of the 3 jars.
mvn install:install-file -Dfile=/PATH/TO/RESTLET-m5-ZIP-EXTRACT-DIR/lib/org.restlet.jar -DgroupId=org.restlet -DartifactId=org.restlet -Dversion=2.0-SNAPSHOT-M5 -Dpackaging=jar
mvn install:install-file -Dfile=/PATH/TO/RESTLET-m5-ZIP-EXTRACT-DIR/lib/org.restlet.ext.spring.jar -DgroupId=org.restlet -DartifactId=org.restlet.ext.spring -Dversion=2.0-SNAPSHOT-M5 -Dpackaging=jar
mvn install:install-file -Dfile=/PATH/TO/RESTLET-m5-ZIP-EXTRACT-DIR/lib/org.restlet.ext.servlet.jar -DgroupId=org.restlet -DartifactId=org.restlet.ext.servlet -Dversion=2.0-SNAPSHOT-M5 -Dpackaging=jar
The above 3 commands will manually install the three Jars into your Maven repository. Next you can configure your POM to add the official Maven repository plus the dependencies to the 3 Jars you installed above. Note that the repository entry is sort of meaningless at this point because you manually installed the jars above. It is IMPORTANT that the version elements in your dependencies below MATCH exactly the versions you specified in the commands above!
<repository>
<id>maven-restlet</id>
<name>Public online Restlet repository</name>
<url>http://maven.restlet.org</url>
</repository>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.restlet</groupId>
<artifactId>org.restlet</artifactId>
<version>2.0-SNAPSHOT-M5</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.restlet</groupId>
<artifactId>org.restlet.ext.spring</artifactId>
<version>2.0-SNAPSHOT-M5</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.restlet</groupId>
<artifactId>org.restlet.ext.servlet</artifactId>
<version>2.0-SNAPSHOT-M5</version>
</dependency>
Ok, great. Next we need to configure your web.xml, open it up and add the following entries in the appropriate spots:
<servlet>
<servlet-name>myRESTApi</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>org.restlet.ext.spring.SpringServerServlet</servlet-class>
<init-param>
<param-name>org.restlet.component</param-name>
<!-- this value must match the bean id of the Restlet component you will configure in Spring (below) -->
<param-value>restletComponent</param-value>
</init-param>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>myRESTApi</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/my/REST/api/*</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
Now your web.xml is configured to take all requests to /my/REST/api/* and send those to a Restlet Component which you will wire up in your Spring configuration. So... bring up your applicationContext.xml or whatever you have it named and add the following entries:
<!-- our SpringComponent which binds us to the Restlet servlet configured above -->
<bean id="restletComponent" class="org.restlet.ext.spring.SpringComponent">
<!-- the defaultTarget for this component is our Restlet Application -->
<property name="defaultTarget" ref="myRestletApplication" />
</bean>
<!-- your Restlet application. This class extends "org.restlet.Application" -->
<bean id="myRestletApplication" class="my.restlet.MyRestletApplication">
<!-- all requests to this Application will be sent to myPath2BeanRouter -->
<property name="root" ref="myPath2BeanRouter"/>
</bean>
<!-- This router automagically routes requests to beans that extend org.restlet.resource.ServerResource or org.restlet.Restlet who's name starts with a "/" slash which matches the request-->
<bean name="myPath2BeanRouter" class="org.restlet.ext.spring.SpringBeanRouter"/>
<!-- This extension of org.restlet.resource.ServerResource bean will handle all requests to made to /my/REST/api/myResource (GET/POST/PUT etc)
This class extends "org.restlet.Restlet" or "org.restlet.resource.ServerResource" -->
<bean name="/myResource" autowire="byName" scope="prototype"
class="my.restlet.package.resources.MyResourceBean">
<property name="somePropertyOfMine" ref="someOtherSpringBean"/>
</bean>
Ok, well if you were having trouble trying to get Spring working with Restlet I hope this helped get you rolling. Restlet is a cool project that works great and can get a REST API up and running pretty quickly (granted you are good at crawling through somewhat scattered documentation) Here are a few other links which you may want to reference:
Restlet 2.0 Extensions API
Restlet 2.0 JEE API
Also, I am posting the following error messages that troubled me when trying to get this to work. The configuration I show above was the result of getting beyond the below errors by using the correct fixed releases. To AVOID the errors below, ENSURE you are using Restlet 2.0 M5 or a custom build from the trunk. Prior to 9/25/09 people were getting the errors below.
Message ID
No target class was defined for this finder
Complete Message org.restlet.ext.spring.SpringFinder $$ EnhancerByCGLIB
