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Consuming RESTful Web Services using Spring's RestTemplate

This week in the Java Reference Guide I continue my series on RESTful Web Services by demonstrating how to use the Spring RestTemplate to consume Web Services. I review different ways to convert objects to and from XML files, and then conclude with an example that consumes RESTful Web Service messages from the service I built last week.

In industry news, the Scala team released the first beta of Scala 2.8 this week. Scala is a new programming language that aims to reduce the amount of code that you write by a factor of two or three compared to Java applications, and it plays nicely with Java. I don't yet know how strong its staying power is and whether or not it is the next big evolution in programming, but it is definitely interesting to read about and try out.


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