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SSL enabled RESTful services are quite easier to develop and test using Jersey, Grizzly and RestTemplate. Jersey (resource development) Grizzly Web Server (resource configuration and deployment) Spring 3 RestTemplate backed by Commons HTTP Client (resource access) In a moment, you will notice how all these nicely fit the bill. Let us start with the POM [...]

The central API for accessing RESTful services in Spring 3 is RestTemplate. It is like any other template mechanism provided by Spring for the client side access. The default implementation uses the java.net package for creating HTTP requests. RestTemplate can be backed by Commons HttpClient using ClientHttpRequestFactory. Using Commons HttpClient as the backend implementation supports [...]