Create Restful Client Consumer with Tomcat

Question

I am using Apache tomcat 6.0.20 I want to create Client To Consume RESTFul Web Service(using GET)

I know I can do it via the old fashion way with URLConnection (regular GET request).

But I wonder is there any way of doing it differently? maybe with Annotations?

score 4 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 15 '11 at 12:54

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I think this article http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/articles/javase/index-137171.html will give you good guidance how to act in both directions.

answered Aug 15 '11 at 12:54

Dmitry Alexandrov

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Yes but this is Oracle. I talk about Apache tomcat. is there capability to use Annotations for rest client there? – rayman Aug 15 '11 at 13:18
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We talk about java here. No matter oracle or apache. – Dmitry Alexandrov Aug 15 '11 at 13:19

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 15 '11 at 14:29

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I'm currently using the API of spring. The connection handling for example is handled already within the RestTemplate class. Have a look to http://static.springsource.org/spring/docs/3.0.x/spring-framework-reference/html/remoting.html#rest-client-access.

answered Aug 15 '11 at 14:29

schdef

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Hi, I am not using Spring framework, so I assume I cant use that API. thanks. – rayman Aug 15 '11 at 14:36
In this http://stackoverflow.com/questions/221442/rest-clients-for-java thread are some non-spring APIs like Jersey mentioned. – schdef Aug 15 '11 at 15:10

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Aug 16 '11 at 08:57

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Using NetBeans 7 there is the possibility to have RESTFul web services created with a simple wizard (with Jersey API): http://netbeans.org/kb/docs/websvc/rest.html . This approach uses annotations.

answered Aug 16 '11 at 08:57

perissf

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But is creating the service or the client? – rayman Aug 16 '11 at 09:19

score -1 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 16 '11 at 08:39

In the end I chose to use the JAVA SE API in the old and fashion way:

public void getRestfullMethod(...) throws IOException
  {
        String temp = null;

        //Build the request data.
        StringBuffer buf = new StringBuffer (..)
        buf.append("&system=").append ("someVal");

        String urlStr = buf.toString ();

        //Send the request.
        URL url = new URL (urlStr);
      URLConnection con = url.openConnection();

      //Return the response.
        BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader (new InputStreamReader (con.getInputStream ()));
        String inputLine = null;

        buf = new StringBuffer ();
        while ((inputLine = in.readLine ()) != null)
              buf.append (inputLine);
        in.close ();

  }

Create Restful Client Consumer with Tomcat

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