If you’re a Spring boot user, you might have definitely used RestTemplate. If you read the official documentation carefully, you might read that RestTemplate will be deprecated in the future and we must use WebClient which offers Synchronous, Asynchronous and Streaming scenarios such as Server-Sent Events, WebSockets, etc. Majority of the applications in production uses RestTemplates and will be practically a long way before it is completely replaced with Reactive WebFlux. It is important to know how we can customize the RestTemplate changing different Http clients. The default HttpClient used in the RestTemplate is provided by the JDK. It is...
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