Question

I am writing a java application which invokes a web service and uses its response text.
(i.e.) it invokes a URL like http://web-server.com/item/3455

That URL would return a response text (string) like “nexus”.

For implementing the above functionality, is there any readily available framework that we can make use of? Or should I code the functionality from scratch.

Thanks.

Answer 1

Even if the API is not strictly RESTful, you can use spring-web’s RestTemplate like so:

RestTemplate restTemplate = new RestTemplate();
String response = restTemplate.getForObject("http://web-server.com/item/3455", String.class);