[Registry-dev] Using our Registry as a PURL server (and also making it work with non-Registry aware clients)

[Paul Fremantle]

So I've talked about this before.

If we store URLs in the Registry, it would be nice to be able to point 
to the Registry entry and get back a redirect to the stored URL.

This is actually the behaviour of PURL servers:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purl
http://purl.org

So, what this means is that a client could direct their SOAP client to 
the registry URL: e.g.

new 
Stub("http://reg/wso2registry/resource/services/finance/accounting?redirect");

The client library will then auto redirect to the real URL stored at
http://reg/wso2registry/resource/services/finance/accounting

Paul

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