Can anyone recommend a Java web framework that is based on MVC and supports REST?

Question

We are looking to host a Java Domain Model (written using DDD) inside a web application. Ideally I would like to support RESTful resources and requests, having a single site to support both users and a REST api.

Ideally the same url could be used for both end users and the RESTful API of a given feature (with HTTP content types / negotiation specifying the difference).

I have done similar apps in Ruby on Rails and Asp.mvc, but have no experience doing anything like this in Java. Anybody have an experience or advice on where to start ? (Googling suggests that Spring v3 might be an answer, anybody have any thoughts on Spring 3 ?)

Answer 1

Spring 3 is not quite ready yet, but the current milestone build (M3) is stable enough to use for real. We're using its REST support in a production application already. It's pretty goodm, and integrates very nicely with Spring MVC. It's not JAX-RS compliant, but I don't see that as a problem.