RESTful service contract

Question

like WSDL what is the contract for RESTful service it exposes to client. Are there any java frameworks to create the client automatically for consuming RESTful Services ?

Answer 1

In REST your media types and your link relations are your contracts. It is possible you use WADL as a runtime discovery mechanism, but it is far less flexible than using hypermedia based representations.

REST systems should never use something like WADL to generate client proxy classes.

Answer 2

Jersey is probably the most popular REST library for Java on the server. They also have client libraries that allow you to consume RESTful services with an example