ColdFusion MVC frameworks & RESTful Service mismatch?

Question

Most CF MVC Frameworks use the front controller pattern. Usually Search Engine Safe (SES) plugin together with URL Rewrite are used to construct friendly URLs. However, when it comes to implementing RESTful services, using a MVC framework seems like a layer of complexity added on top of another layer of complexity.

How should one tame this beast? Any nice and clean approach of supporting RESTful services with ColdFusion? Any MVC framework out there that can expose RESTful services easily?

Thanks

Answer 1

ColdBox has been supporting RESTful URLs for a long time now. In 3.0 you can even split the incoming HTTP verbs to execute different actions in a nice decoupled manner. read here: http://blog.coldbox.org/post.cfm/coldbox-rest-enabled-urls

You can even have HTTP method security on your event handlers very easily:

component{

    this.allowedMethods = {
        LIST = "GET",
        SAVE = "POST,PUT"
    };
}