The Spring RestTemplate has been THE go-to web client in Spring for many years and still has a high rate of adoption and real-world usage.  However, the Spring team decided to add a new web client in Spring 5 and introduced the WebClient class. This immediately raises the question of why add a new client? The short answer is that the WebClient is a reactive-aware alternative to the RestTemplate. Since this is a major change in Spring, it’s important to understand in more detail the differences between the two: >> Spring WebClient vs. RestTemplate Cheers, Eugen

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