[STANBOL-742] Get rid of usage of com.sun.jersey.api.view.Viewable

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: commons-0.11.0
• Component/s: Commons
• Assignee: Reto Gmür
• Reporter: Reto Gmür
• Created: 14/Sep/12 06:28
• Updated: 22/Jan/13 12:08
• Resolved: 29/Nov/12 18:41

Description

We should no longer use com.sun.jersey.api.view.Viewable mainly for two reasons:

• com.sun.jersey.api.view.Viewable is provided by the jersey server package, it is not part of the jax-rs standard. Tha main advantage of adhering to a standard is portability this is lost if implementation specific classes are used.
• It is not the business of the jax-rs resource class to care about the presenation. The resource method should just return objects than can be rendered to many formats using MessageBodyWriters.