2. Clients
The Customer Portal API is, by nature, client-agnostic. It is expressed as a set of resource URLs which send and receive XML data. Some common clients and platforms include, but are not limited to, the following:
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Client
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Platform/Environment
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Comments
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cURL [a]
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Command Line (Linux, UNIX, Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows)
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Easy and transparent way to test commands and do simple integration
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Apache HTTP Client [b]
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Java
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Most common Java library with which to talk HTTP; offers little semantic value beyond simple HTTP; no intrinsic binding of XML
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RESTeasy Client [c]
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Java
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Full Java model integration; no need to think about HTTP or XML; uses Apache HTTP Client underneath
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