I’m currently looking into a way to split my frontend and backend on seperate servers. The communication between the frontend and backend has to be handled by a REST webservice from the backend. The current REST extension look very complete and interesting, but I can’t seem to find any implementation with relations.
In short, is there a way to let REST be capable of returning a request like:
$model=User::model()->with(‘posts’)->find($criteria);
Currently I am thinking about using the ActiveResource extension for the frontend and FreshRest for the backend. FreshRest seems to be able to handle some relations via the scope parameter.
I feel like there is an easy way to solve my problem. Any help would be appreciated 
(can’t use links to the extensions, since it is my first post on this forum)
Edit: Reading some more about REST, it might be better for me to create a SOAP webservice on which my controllers are located right?