What am I not understanding about REST?

Question

I\'m building a framework and want developers who build with it to have the ability to allow parts of it to both share data with other sites and allow other sites to add/edi

Answer 1

With the Restlet framework, we exactly tried to provide this level of abstraction above HTTP details and to make REST concepts more concrete (many have a matching class like Component, Connector and Representation): http://www.restlet.org/

We are pragmatic coders and our users develop real-world applications with our RESTful framework (for Java and GWT). REST supporters aren't all pedantic but there is a learning curve like for every major technology.