Solr has a HTTP/JSON-based API. However, it isn’t exactly a REST API because it doesn’t really follow any of the rules for a well-defined REST interface. I whine about this sometimes.

Invoke-RestMethod natively understands the output a REST API method returns, which is typically JSON. When the API does return JSON, Invoke-RestMethod will parse the JSON and return useful PowerShell ...

The fourth chapter of Developing RESTful Services with JAX-RS 2.0, WebSockets, and JSON covers JSR 353 (“Java API for JSON Processing“) and “related APIs.” ...

There are tradeoffs for hypermedia and HATEOAS, however. You’ll need to make more roundtrips to get all the information you want from an API. You’ll also need to know a lot about the API beforehand.

RESTful web service clients come in a variety of shapes and sizes. Here are the five that every Java developer should know. Curl. Curl is a Unix-based utility that enables developers to invoke URLs ...