# Create client for REST Server

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Published 2022-12-03

Spring Boot is designed to speed up the development of Spring applications by writing less boilerplate code. Spring Boot makes it easy to create stand-alone, production-grade Spring based Applications that you can "just run". Most Spring Boot applications need very little Spring configuration.

In this tutorial I will create a Spring Boot REST Web Service Client (Consumer).

First of all, you need to (1) create a simple Spring Application configured with Maven. After that you need to configure (2) Maven using pom.xml file .

Here is the POM configuration for a simple Spring Boot REST Web Service Client (Consumer):

After that you have to add the following classes to the Spring Boot REST Web Client Application :

package com.example.main;
 
import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlRootElement;
 
@XmlRootElement
public class Student {
 
    String name;
    int age;
     
    public String getName() {
        return name;
    }
    public void setName(String name) {
        this.name = name;
    }
    public int getAge() {
        return age;
    }
    public void setAge(int age) {
        this.age = age;
    }
}

package com.example.main;
 
import org.springframework.web.client.RestTemplate;
 
public class Main {
 
    public static void main (String [] args) {
         
        RestTemplate restTemplate = new RestTemplate();
         
        Student student = restTemplate.getForObject("http://localhost:8080/student/Dan/20", Student.class);
        System.out.println(student.name);   
        System.out.println(student.age);
         
        String response2 
               = restTemplate.getForObject("http://localhost:8080/add?value1=1&value2=10", String.class);   
        System.out.println(response2);
    }
}

When we run the Spring Boot REST Web Service Client we receive the following output: