Generator-jhipster: RAML service generator

[skjolber]

Add option for providing a RAML file when creating a service. The option would use functionality from https://github.com/mulesoft/raml-for-jax-rs

[jdubois]

I've never heard of this. Where does this specification comes from? The Github page is quite empty on this.
Our documentation is generated by Swagger, does this add anything more?

[skjolber]

RAML defines the service while Swagger more documents existing service. Should be possible to generate both backend REST definition and AngularJS client service out of the same RAML file.

[jdubois]

In that case, JHipster is already a generator, and Swagger documents what is being generated. I don't understand why we should use another generator... I'm lost, here. Is this some kind of WSDL for REST? And the generator some wsdl2java for REST?
Anyway I would really like to know where this spec comes from, I've never heard of it and they don't say anything on the website.

[skjolber]

Yes, this is more like a WSDL for REST. This seems to sum the project: http://raml.org/about.html.

I have not seen a Spring REST annotation project yet though, so if CXF is out of out scope, you might prefer to wait.

[jdubois]

Yes, if it only works if CXF, we can't use anyway...