Author and all-around good cowpoke
Posts: 13078
posted 10 years ago
Note that since REST is an architectural style for addressing resources rather than a messaging API, I don't think it possible to come up with a universal client.
A simple GET request could return any resource from an XML document to an encrypted image. Just for a start, consider all the resource types a web browser might GET for a single page.
Then we get into POST, PUT, DELETE, etc etc. - in any case, the JDK will be sufficient for generating the request, but handling the resource returned may require a specialized library.
Bill