Choosing Between RestTemplate and WebClient in Spring Applications
Guide to choosing Spring's RestTemplate or WebClient based on blocking vs reactive needs, with a comparison table, code examples, and validation steps.
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Guide to choosing Spring's RestTemplate or WebClient based on blocking vs reactive needs, with a comparison table, code examples, and validation steps.
When a Grails service injects the default RestTemplate to invoke an external HTTPS endpoint that presents a self‑signed certificate, the request fails with an SSL handshake error indicating the certificate chain cannot be validated. The goal is to configure the client to trust that certificate for outbound calls while avoiding unintended side effects on othe