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.

Answer 2

Well, there are many ways you could access RESTful API using Java third party libraries, like using Apache Http Client or using Sun Jersey API.

You could also use the native java.net.HttpURLConnection to consume REST Services