Spring 4 AsyncRestTemplate Example

Spring's central class for asynchronous client-side HTTP access. Exposes similar methods as RestTemplate, but returns ListenableFuture wrappers as opposed to concrete results. See more about AsyncRestTemplate
1. Create a maven project with below dependencies 

<dependency>
 <groupid>org.springframework</groupid>
 <artifactid>spring-core</artifactid>
 <version>4.0.6.RELEASE</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
 <groupid>org.springframework</groupid>
 <artifactid>spring-web</artifactid>
 <version>4.0.6.RELEASE</version>
</dependency>

2. Create a main class to test AsyncRestTemplate

import java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException;
import org.springframework.http.HttpEntity;
import org.springframework.http.HttpHeaders;
import org.springframework.http.HttpMethod;
import org.springframework.http.MediaType;
import org.springframework.http.ResponseEntity;
import org.springframework.util.concurrent.ListenableFuture;
import org.springframework.web.client.AsyncRestTemplate;

public class AsyncRestTemplateExample {

 public static void main(String[] args) {

  String url = "http://pretechsol.com";
  AsyncRestTemplate asyncRestTemplate = null;
  HttpMethod method = null;
  try {

   // Create AsyncRestTemplate object
   asyncRestTemplate = new AsyncRestTemplate();

   // Define http method
   method = HttpMethod.GET;

   // Define response type
   Class responseType = String.class;

   // Define headers

   HttpHeaders headers = new HttpHeaders();
   headers.setContentType(MediaType.TEXT_PLAIN);

   HttpEntity<String> requestEntity = new HttpEntity<String>("params",
     headers);
   ListenableFuture<ResponseEntity<String>> future = asyncRestTemplate
     .exchange(url, method, requestEntity, responseType);

   ResponseEntity<String> entity = future.get();
   System.out.println(entity.getBody());
  } catch (InterruptedException e) {
   e.printStackTrace();
  } catch (ExecutionException e) {
   e.printStackTrace();
  }
 }

}