Question

I am using Spring MVC and want to develop a website that uses REST API provided by LinkedIn. I am very new to REST and have no Idea of how to use REST and retrieve data. I want a full tutorial so as to start up with my REST application. Please help me out through this.

Answer 1

For consuming RESTful services the core class provided by spring is RestTemplate

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

A very simplified example is:

class MyServiceClient {

    RestTemplate rest = new RestTemplate();

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