New REST JSR

Via Jérôme: Yesterday Sun proposed a new JSR (311) to provide a simple REST API for Java. Initial thoughts:

  1. Cool!
  2. The servlet API is not ideal, this is needed.
  3. I hope they don’t screw it up (see JAX-WS).

Update: Based on Marc Hadley’s post, maybe we won’t have to worry about #3.

Update 2: Steve Loughran and Stefan Tilkov have important things to say.  Steve says he will join the expert group if I do (seeing that Stefan, Mark Baker, and Bill de Hora already have), so I submitted a request.  Steve?