Consuming RESTful API services using Rest Template

Short summary

Tutorial walkthrough on using Spring Boot's RestTemplate to consume external REST APIs from another microservice. Demonstrates Maven dependency configuration, REST controller setup with Spring annotations, and practical implementation of HTTP requests using getForObject(). Essential foundational knowledge for Java developers building service-to-service communication.

• •Add spring-boot-starter-webmvc dependency for REST support
• •Use @RestController and @GetMapping annotations to expose endpoints
• •Configure RestTemplate bean to call external APIs with getForObject()

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