title: How to retrieve data from cloud using rest service
body: <p>Our employee salary data are stored in the cloud provided by the third party. Currently, the third party  need to send us a copy of the database to us and we recover it to our local server for reporting purpose. I need to build a application to retrieve the data directly from the cloud and use the only tables we need for report purpose. the third party provide restful service to do this, but since I am new to web service programming, I am kind of lost here to decide what to do. So my question is what is the best way that i could proceed this.
  Any help will be appreciated.</p>