GET /managed-components

or

GET /managed-components?op=read-resource

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: application/json

{
    "description": "Available operations and children (sub-resources).",
    "children": [
        {
            "name": "foo",
            "description": "Some description",
            "link": {
                "rel": "child",
                "href": "http://localhost:8080/rest/private/managed-components/foo"
            }
        }
    ],
    "operations": [
        {
            "operation-name": "read-resource",
            "operation-description": "Lists information about a managed resource, including available operations and children (sub-resources).",
            "link": {
                "rel": "self",
                "href": "http://localhost:8080/rest/private/managed-components"
                "type": "application/json"
                "method": "get"
            }
        }
    ]
}

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: application/xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<resource>
    <description>Available operations and children (sub-resources).</description>
    <children>
        <child>
            <name>foo</name>
            <description>Some description</description>
            <link href="http://localhost:8080/rest/private/managed-components/foo" rel="child"/>
        </child>
    </children>
    <operations>
        <operation>
            <operation-name>read-resource</operation-name>
            <operation-description>Lists information about a managed resource, including available operations and children (sub-resources).</operation-description>
            <link href="http://localhost:8080/rest/private/managed-components" rel="self" type="application/xml" method="get"/>
        </operation>
    </operations>
</resource>