Rest with spring video course question II

[Lucas Toledo]

I like the sound of this video.

As someone starting from scratch on RESTful WS, I have the following question.

I have a wicket web app, and it is managed as a spring application, where I use IoC, annotations and spring-hibernate.

Should I create a separate application to handle RESTful WS? Would adding spring REST make my application less modular?

Thanks in advance,
Lucas

[Eugen Paraschiv]

That depends. Overall, and without knowing more about your architecture, goals and constraints - I would lean towards modularity. More concretely - using most of the layers you already have and packaging them in a separate deployable unit that exposes the REST API. That generally affords you the mist flexibility if you're OK with having a separate deploy process.
Hope that helps - and keep in touch.
Cheers,
Eugen.