Appendix F. Getting additional help

Beyond this book’s broad presentation of the Restlet Framework, additional documentation is also available on the web. Also, you can directly interact with the Restlet community by asking questions and contributing in various ways, such as participating in discussion lists and checking out an issue tracker.

Because the Restlet Framework has been created and mainly maintained by Restlet SAS (previously named Noelios Technologies), we’ll briefly point you to available professional services in case you need dedicated assistance or have specific needs.

F.1. Accessing online documentation

This section gives you pointers to the best online resources, including Javadocs, tutorials, and user guides to go beyond this book.

Javadocs

The Javadocs are available for each Restlet Framework version (such as 2.1) and edition (such as jse). For example, the Javadocs of version 2.1 of the Java SE edition are available at www.restlet.org/documentation/2.1/jse.

Note that each distribution of the Restlet Framework also contains a copy of the Javadocs as well as the whole source code for easier contextual documentation within your favorite IDE or offline reading.

Wiki

Apart from the main www.restlet.org site, a wiki is available that provides structured documentation about the framework. It’s available at http://wiki.restlet.org and includes several sites. Each site has a table of contents on the left-hand side, a search box, and a set of pages visible on the right, sometimes in several versions (called variants by Daisy, the open source CMS used). Here are some interesting pages:

  • Description of the core Restlet API—/docs_2.1/27-restlet.html
  • Mapping between Restlet API and HTTP headers—/docs_2.1/130-restlet.html
  • Connectors—/docs_2.1/37-restlet.html
  • Services—/docs_2.1/331-restlet.html
  • Editions—/docs_2.1/275-restlet.html
  • Extensions—/docs_2.1/28-restlet.html
  • Tutorial—/docs_2.1/318-restlet.html

This tutorial illustrates a simple application deployed on the Google App Engine platform and consumed by three kinds of Restlet-based clients: a GWT module, an Android application, and a classical JVM.

Another wiki site lists documentation provided by the Restlet community in other locations such as blog posts, YouTube videos, tutorials, articles, and books: http://wiki.restlet.org/community/167-restlet.html.

F.2. Asking questions

You have numerous ways to get in touch with other Restlet users or developers, but first make sure you read the available FAQs at http://wiki.restlet.org/docs_2.1/333-restlet.html.

Then you can search the popular StackOverflow help site for similar questions—or post your own and start helping others: http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=restlet.

You can get more directly in touch with Restlet users and developers via the discussion group (mailing list) at www.restlet.org/community/lists.

F.3. Code and issues repository

After using the Tigris.org forge for seven years, the project has recently moved to the more modern and productive GitHub platform for both the code repository (Git server) and the issues tracker. You can now fork the project at https://github.com/restlet/restlet-framework-java and contribute enhancements using the powerful pull request feature.

F.4. Professional services

If you need urgent help, can’t publicly ask for questions, or want to sponsor the development of new features for the Restlet Framework, you’re welcome to get in touch with Restlet SAS, the company behind this open source project. Here are some pointers:

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