Remoting in the Sample Application

In the SpringBlog application, the main remoting functionality is the retrieval of blog posting entries by the clients. To fulfill the requirement, we will use Spring MVC's comprehensive RESTful-WS support.

The main highlights of the implementation of the blog feed service are as follows:

• A RESTful servlet will be defined for remote retrieval of blog posting entries via RESTful-WS.
• A controller will be implemented in the web layer to accept requests (with a predefined URL and HTTP GET method) and return the most recent blog posting entries to the client.
• In terms of data formats, JSON and XML will be supported, and the techniques discussed in this chapter will be used in the sample application.

For details, please refer to the section “ RESTful-WS for RSS Feed of Blog Post Entries” in Chapter 21.