krams::: Spring 3: REST Web Service Provider and Client Tutorial (Part 1)

In this tutorial we'll create a RESTful web service based on Spring 3. We'll be developing a REST provider using URI templates that returns XML and JSON representations of our data. We'll also add basic support for retrieving images and html pages. We'll test our provider via RESTClient to verify the service's availability. In part 2, we'll add an actual client based on RestTemplate and Spring MVC that will access our service. What is REST? Representational State Transfer (REST) is a style of softw...