[Building Sakai] Spring 3 REST features in Sakai 2.9

[Curtis Van-Osch]

I just saw this message concerning upgrading Spring in Sakai 2.9.
Doesn't seem like that would be worth the effort.

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Curtis Van Osch
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Curtis Van-Osch a écrit :
> Hi,
> We're in the planning stages of rewriting one of our Sakai tools 
> (OpenSyllabus), and want to use RESTful web services for the back-end 
> with a JavaScript front-end client.  We are hoping to deploy this new 
> version before upgrading to Sakai 10. I've been looking at using 
> Spring to implement the back-end to avoid adding another dependency on 
> Jersey or anything else.
>
> I see that Spring 3 includes comprehensive REST support.  Is there any 
> way we could take advantage of these new features in Sakai 2.9?
> I'm assuming it would not be feasible for our tool to inject services 
> from other tools if their Spring versions differ (i.e. Spring 3 for 
> our tool and the rest using Spring 2.5.6).  Maybe we could patch our 
> installation to get everything on Spring 3 (KNL-517), though it sounds 
> like a lot of work/testing that will be pointless after we upgrade.
>
> The last option would be to avoid the new features of Spring 3 and 
> just stick with 2.5.6 until we upgrade.  I'm sure it's doable, but I'm 
> still researching how exactly that would limit us (looks like some 
> annotations where added, and maybe some data conversion).
>
> Any advice or comments would be greatly appreciated!
>
> -- 
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> Curtis Van Osch
> Analyste-Programmeur
> Service de développement de systèmes d'information
> hec.ca <http://www.hec.ca>
> Agréments 	
> 3000, chemin de la Côte-Sainte-Catherine, Montréal (Québec) H3T 2A7
> Téléphone : 514 340-6000, poste 2029
>
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