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REST Clients

This section describes options for client-side access to REST endpoints.

`RestClient`

RestClient is a synchronous HTTP client that exposes a modern, fluent API.

See RestClient for more details.

`WebClient`

WebClient is a reactive client to perform HTTP requests with a fluent API.

See WebClient for more details.

`RestTemplate`

RestTemplate is a synchronous client to perform HTTP requests. It is the original Spring REST client and exposes a simple, template-method API over underlying HTTP client libraries.

See REST Endpoints for details.

HTTP Interface

The Spring Frameworks lets you define an HTTP service as a Java interface with HTTP exchange methods. You can then generate a proxy that implements this interface and performs the exchanges. This helps to simplify HTTP remote access and provides additional flexibility for to choose an API style such as synchronous or reactive.

See REST Endpoints for details.