Spring made it very easy to consume JSON webservices. In this article I describe how to receive and parse JSON and how to send your Java objects as JSON. First we need to include the required dependencies. If you use maven, include the following dependencies:

<dependency>
      <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
      <artifactId>spring-web</artifactId>
      <version>3.1.2.RELEASE</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
      <groupId>org.codehaus.jackson</groupId>
      <artifactId>jackson-mapper-asl</artifactId>
      <version>1.9.9</version>
</dependency>

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