Implementing a client which uploads a file through Rest

[vaibhav mishra]

I want to implement a client in java which can upload a file through a Restful web service,I tried online examples but most of them reies on using JSP and servlet, and I am not able to comprehend how to do the same in the rest way, the only requirement I have is client is in java(not a web application, but a desktop application) , the rest service through server would be in any technology(as simple as possible) , can anybody recommend some pointers or tutorials to do the same

[Martijn Verburg]

RESTful calls can be made over HTTP, in fact the are in your case just straight HTTP calls (GET, POST, PUT, DELETE). So using something like HttpClient from Apache as a helper library will allow you to make calls to a server.

On the server side the service just has to respond to this HTTP request. I've found a nice way to do this is using Spring's 3.0 M3 RESTful support (which basically uses annotations to make dealing with REST requests really trivial).

Hope that helps a little!