JSON Client side API for spring MVC 3.0

Question

I am looking for a way to setting up a JSON proxy client in a spring framework way.

We are going to use Spring MVC on the server side. We don't like XML as they are overkill and heavy. JSON seem to be a lightweight and effective message container for us.

However, I've search around and read http://static.springsource.org/spring/docs/3.0.x/spring-framework-reference/html/remoting.html many times and I don't find any hits to put my spring client into a JSON client.

They provided RMI, Http, JAX-WS, SOAP and others. But nothing related to as a client of MVC (which I guess it could be common as we don't want to write it twice)

RestTemplate looks good but I am wonder is it the suggested way to do in spring 3.0.

Answer 1

The RestTemplate is indeed the preferred way of accessing rest services.