Restlet API

Introduction

This chapter presents the Restlet API. It is a small set of packages, with classes, interfaces and enumerations that together provide a framework. This framework will guide you on the path to RESTful design and development. But be aware that you still need to understand REST in order to fully take advantage of the Restlet features. For this purpose, we recommend the book "RESTful Web Services" from O'Reilly. We even wrote a part of it covering Restlet usage.

For a more detailed presentation of the API, we recommend that you have a close look at the Restlet Tutorial and at the Javadocs of the API, both available on the Restlet Web site.

Here is a hierarchy diagram showing the main concepts of the API and their relationships: