1. What is the Spring RestTemplate?
It is the central class within the Spring framework for executing Spring-based RESTful services on the client-side. The communication to the server is accomplished using the REST constraints. This is similar to other template classes such as JdbcTemplate, HibernateTemplate, etc. provided by Spring.
The RestTemplate provides high-level implementation details for the HTTP Methods like GET, POST, PUT, etc., and gives the methods to communicate using the URI template, URI path params, request/response types, request object, etc. as part of arguments.
2. What are the direct annotations for specifying HTTP methods in Spring?
The annotations are:
@GetMapping
@PostMapping
@PutMapping
@DeleteMapping
@PatchMapping
3. What is the @RestController annotation do?
It is a combination of the @Controller and @ResponseBody annotations. It is used…
