[Work In Progress, you have been warned] So clients are like pie. Creamy, gooey, butterscotch cream pie with meringue. Known at the in-laws house as Baby Bear Pie for reasons unknown-to-me. Meringue is yummy but not much by itself. Pie crust does its job most of the time without being noticed, unless it is sub-par. It's the cream filling that gets all of the attention. Butterscotch, lemon or chocolate, that's where the glory is. REST clients are like pie, what with their multiple layers of communication handlers, data marshallers and output formatters and all. So lets talk client crust. It