What is WRML?

WRML is an client-server application framework that leverages REST API design rules, web resource schemas, and pluggable serialization formats to free developers from the boring and tedious bookkeeping code so that they can focus on coding something awesome.

WRML is governed by a set of standards which are maintained and evolved by the WRML Project Management Committee. These standards enable the creation of WRML's various tools, frameworks, and engines.

Project Status (Winter 2011)

Today, the WRML open source project is just getting started. The web site, communication tools, development environment, and backlog are just beginning to take shape.

Note that the following whitepapers and slides are intended for a very technical audience (WRML committers):

Starter Deck (work in progress)
REST (work in progress)
Introduction (work in progress)
Proof of Concept: Schema Loader
Proof of Concept: Hypermedia Engine
Proof of Concept: JSON as a Format
Proof of Concept: Backend Connection (work in progress)

The current WRML Project committers are (in alphabetical order):

Name	Organization	Time zone
Brian Jackson	ESPN	UTC-5
Mark Masse	ESPN	UTC-8

History

The WRML project started unofficially in July of 2011 by Mark Masse. The formation of a more formal open source and standards governance body didn't happen until October of that same year.

WRML Project Management Committee

WRML Project Management Committee carries the responsibilities of the WRML project, which include:

Oversee the maintenance and evolution of the WRML standards
Provide reference implementations of the tools, frameworks, and engines that leverage the WRML standards and methodology
Develop reference implementations of various backend connectors, to adapt/bridge/transform common sources such as popular data stores and web services
Evangelize the benefits of WRML's approach to web-oriented programming and application architecture

Additionally, committee members are responsible for helping to recruit, propose, and interview new project committee members.

The WRML Project Management Committee contains (in alphabetical order):