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<p>Sometimes though you may want to extend or change the representations generated. This might be because you want to
write a RESTful client that uses a particular library (say a Javascript library or web components) that can only handle representations in a certain form.</p>
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<p>Or, you might want to have Apache Isis generate representations according to some other "standard", of which there are
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<p>Mike Kelly&#8217;s <a href="http://stateless.co/hal_specification.html">HAL</a> specification</p>
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<p>Mike Amundsen&#8217;s <a href="http://amundsen.com/media-types/collection/">Collection+JSON</a> specification</p>
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<p>Kevin Swiber&#8217;s <a href="https://github.com/kevinswiber/siren">Siren</a> specification</p>
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<p>Steve Klabnik&#8217;s <a href="http://jsonapi.org/">JSON API</a> specification</p>
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<p>the W3C&#8217;s <a href="https://www.w3.org/TR/json-ld/">JSON-LD</a> specification</p>
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<p>Markus Lanthaler&#8217;s <a href="http://www.markus-lanthaler.com/hydra/">Hydra</a> specification.</p>
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<p>A good discussion about the relative merits of several of these different hypermedia formats can be found <a href="https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/api-craft/NgjzQYVOE4s/EAB2jxtU_TMJ">here</a>.</p>
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<p>Or, of course, you may have your own internal specification that you wish to use.</p>
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<p>Supporting any of these alternative representations can be achieved by providing a suitable implementation of
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<p>These will, admittedly, need to access the internal APIs for the Apache Isis metamodel, and you should be aware that
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