In the last couple of years, REST has emerged as a compelling alternative to SOAP/WSDL/WS-*-based distributed architectures. So when we started to plan our work on the next major release of Spring - version 3.0, it was quite clear to us that we had to focus on making the development of 'RESTful' Web services and applications easier. Now, what is and isn't 'RESTful' could be the topic of a whole ne
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