How to use REST when using Java?

Question

I am using Spring MVC and want to create a website that uses the REST API provided by LinkedIn. I am very new to REST and have no idea how to use REST and retrieve data. I want a complete tutorial to start with my REST application. Please help me with this.

Answer 1

To use RESTful services, the main class provided by spring is RestTemplate

The spring blog has a good article on how to use RestTemplate .

A very simplified example:

class MyServiceClient {

    RestTemplate rest = new RestTemplate();

    public String get(String thingy){
        return rest.get("http://www.example.com/api/stuff/{thingy}", String.class, thingy);
    }
}     

Answer 2

rest4j. Spring, Spring MVC, rest4j .

Java JSON, ORM.