Points To Remember You need to add the following dependency to your project to use Spring Rest Template. compile('org.springframework:spring-web:3.0.2.RELEASE') How to get response from a server by HTTP GET call Following are the methods that can be used to get the response from a url using HTTP GET method. getForObject() This method takes a URL , Response class (it tells that the response should be bound to this class). RestTemplate restTemplate = new RestTemplate(); String response = restTemplate.getForObject("http://localhost:8080/someUrl",String.class); Following method will make a Http GET call with params. Map<String,String> params = new LinkedHashMap<String, String>(); params.put("userId","1"); RestTemplate restTemplate = new RestTemplate(); String response = restTemplate.getForObject("http://localhost:8080/someUrl",String.class,params); This method does not give the following Http status code for the GET cal...