Restlet Engine

The engine is the set of classes that together supports or implements the Restlet API. Currently, there is a strict separation with the API, but this will change in Restlet 1.2 to facilitate the deployment and packaging of applications.

This seperation will however stay conceptually between the classes that are expected to be used by Restlet users while developping their applications and the classes that are expected to be used by the Restlet core developers.

Note that the engine is also extensible and can detect pluggable connectors available on the classpath as well as pluggable authentication helpers.