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What can I use to create a REST client in Java?

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If I want to use Java to create a REST client, what should I use?

Can I use CXF?

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I had success using the HttpClient from Jakarta Commons.

Java also comes with URLConnection , but you can see this comparison with HttpClient .

Apache CXF supports REST clients (see here ), but it seems redundant (CXF is a common “services” structure and therefore complicated by CORBA, SOAP, etc. support)

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There is a client client API that allows you to easily implement clients in Java

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I used Restlet . I really liked and wrote a blog post about my experience.

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imo is unlikely to need a framework, just use the servlet API and implement the request methods you need: POST / GET / PUT / DELETE / HEAD

Example: http://www.exampledepot.com/egs/javax.servlet/com_mycompany_MyServlet.html

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I think it really depends on the application and your environment, but I find resteasy really easy (as it is so declarative) and customizable. See chapter 30 for customer documentation.

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Use the HTTP4e REST client for Eclipse. It is easy to use and has Java / C # / Ruby / Flex / ActionScript / etc. Create one click.

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I tried to use the examples given in this ling http://cxf.apache.org/docs/jax-rs-client-api.html I ran into a problem that the interface or Impl cannot always be protected by the client side to create a proxy. I also tried wadl2java to find out if clients are generated. CXF 2.6 did not create a client class.

I am pleased with the HTTPclient call until some specific implementation changes the way the client is written.

Note. We use only CXF with Java, so we only experiment with CXF. another implementation may give different results

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