Eclipse HTTP Client (HTTP4e) is an Eclipse plugin for making HTTP and RESTful calls. Build with user experience in mind, it simplifies the developer/QA job of testing Web Services, REST, JSON and HTTP. It is a useful tool for your daily job of HTTP header tampering and hacking.
What CouchDB is
* A document database server, accessible via a RESTful JSON API.
* Ad-hoc and schema-free with a flat address space.
* Distributed, featuring robust, incremental replication with bi-directional conflict detection and management.
* Query-able and index-able, featuring a table oriented reporting engine that uses Javascript as a query language.
What it is Not
* A relational database.
* A replacement for relational databases.
* An object-oriented database. Or more specifically, meant to function as a seamless persistence layer for an OO programming language.
The Django REST interface makes it easy to offer private and public APIs for existing Django models. New generic views simplify data retrieval and modification in a resource-centric architecture
Here's the deal: you develop your complete Web API in source code. Make sure it's well-documented and that the metadata is correct, but don't worry about deployment descriptors, servlet configuration, packaging, or even interoperability. Then invoke Enunc