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Recommendations on what technology to use to call REST API [closed]

I'm creating a small web-site that needs to call a REST API to retrieve some JSON and display it. What is the best tool for this job? There are so many Javascript libraries available now it is ...
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Which is simpler for REST client call to return JSON - JQuery/JavaScript or Spring RestTemplate?

I've been trying to hack up an annotated Spring MVC web app (have some experience with Spring but also rusty and not a super programmer) but it's proving pretty hard to call a URL of my web app which ...
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Should web service response use a base class or generic class?

In my RESTful WCF web service I have something like the following response object. public class WebResponse<T> { public bool Success { get; set; } public T Data { get; set; } ...
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Always return single objects in an array for REST API JSON payloads?

For a REST API that I am working on, I want to return JSON in a consistent layout: { "Data" : { "Id" : 123, "Email" : "charlie@somewhere.com" "Firstname" : "Charlie", "Surname" ...
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xml parser vs JSON parser performance in Java / C / C++

I am trying to understand which data format is better on embedded device communicating with Server over REST API. XML or JSON?. Is JSON parsing faster than XML parsing in Java / C and C++? I ...