Consuming RESTful APIs using Java

Question

How would you consume a RESTful API using Java with probably just the standard packages? For ex: Twitter API. I know there are great Java libraries to access it, but how wou

Answer 1

Don't think you should start from scratch, however Spring's RestTemplate is something you can simple use to consume RESTful Services.

http://blog.springsource.com/2009/03/27/rest-in-spring-3-resttemplate/

Cheers.