Consuming REST services

// You will need Jakarta httpclient-core 4.x to get it to work!

public static Job fetchJob(String jobNumber){
    Job job = null;
    DefaultHttpClient httpclient = new DefaultHttpClient();
    try {
        HttpHost target = new HttpHost("server.com", 443, "https");
        HttpGet req = new HttpGet("/jobs/" + jobNumber + ".json?key=12345");
        HttpResponse rsp = httpclient.execute(target, req);
        HttpEntity entity = rsp.getEntity();
        String resultString = EntityUtils.toString(entity);
        
        ERXJSONRestParser parser = new ERXJSONRestParser();
        
        ERXStringRestRequest request = new ERXStringRestRequest(resultString);
        
        ERXRestRequestNode requestNode = parser.parseRestRequest(request, null, null);
        
        NSDictionary dict = (NSDictionary) requestNode.toNSCollection(null);
        job = new Job(dict);
        job.setJob(jobNumber);
        
    } 
    catch (IOException e1) {
      e1.printStackTrace();
    }
    finally {
        httpclient.getConnectionManager().shutdown();
    }
    return job;
  }

   SimpleClient client = ProxyFactory.create(SimpleClient.class, "http://search.twitter.com/");
    ClientResponse<TwitterSearchResult> response = client.getSearchResults("#wowodc","recent");
    if (response.getResponseStatus().getFamily().equals(Response.Status.Family.SUCCESSFUL)) {
      NSLog.out.appendln(response.getEntity());
    } 

package com.wowodc.rest.client;

import java.util.Set;

import javax.ws.rs.Consumes;
import javax.ws.rs.GET;
import javax.ws.rs.POST;
import javax.ws.rs.Path;
import javax.ws.rs.Produces;
import javax.ws.rs.QueryParam;

import org.jboss.resteasy.client.ClientResponse;

public interface SimpleClient {
  
  @GET
  @Path("search.json")
  @Produces("application/json")
  ClientResponse<TwitterSearchResult> getSearchResults(@QueryParam("q") String hashtag, @QueryParam("result_type") String resultType);
}