I want to create a java rest API using the Restlet framework. I want my API to be available over the internet so that the front-end applications can be mobile phone apps for iPhone or Android or websites. My server is likely to be tomcat (I have not checked yet if glassfish will do).
My question is this: which edition of Restlet do I use: the Java SE or the Java EE Edition? Here is a link that describes them very succinctly: http://wiki.restlet.org/docs_2.0/13-restlet/21-restlet/171-restlet/344-restlet.html
Use this one: Java EE edition. It has extra code in it to connect to enterprise containers.
Source here:
This edition is aimed for development and deployment of Restlet applications inside Java EE application server, or more precisely inside Servlet containers such as Apache Tomcat.