diff --git a/httpclient-2/pom.xml b/httpclient-2/pom.xml
index 1a27d9b5fe..7638c692dc 100644
--- a/httpclient-2/pom.xml
+++ b/httpclient-2/pom.xml
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
     <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
     <artifactId>httpclient-2</artifactId>
     <version>0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <name>httpclient-2</name>
 
     <parent>
         <groupId>com.baeldung</groupId>
@@ -13,6 +14,7 @@
     </parent>
 
     <dependencies>
+        <!-- http client -->
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.apache.httpcomponents</groupId>
             <artifactId>httpclient</artifactId>
@@ -24,6 +26,19 @@
                 </exclusion>
             </exclusions>
         </dependency>
+
+        <!-- rest template -->
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
+            <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web</artifactId>
+            <version>${spring-boot.version}</version>
+        </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
+            <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-test</artifactId>
+            <version>${spring-boot.version}</version>
+            <scope>test</scope>
+        </dependency>
     </dependencies>
 
     <build>
@@ -34,10 +49,24 @@
                 <filtering>true</filtering>
             </resource>
         </resources>
+        <plugins>
+            <plugin>
+                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+                <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
+                <version>${maven-compiler-plugin.version}</version>
+                <configuration>
+                    <source>${maven.compiler.source.version}</source>
+                    <target>${maven.compiler.target.version}</target>
+                </configuration>
+            </plugin>
+        </plugins>
     </build>
 
     <properties>
         <httpclient.version>4.5.8</httpclient.version>
+        <maven.compiler.source.version>11</maven.compiler.source.version>
+        <maven.compiler.target.version>11</maven.compiler.target.version>
+        <spring-boot.version>2.1.7.RELEASE</spring-boot.version>
     </properties>
 
 </project>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/httpclient-2/src/test/java/com/baeldung/httpclient/readresponsebodystring/ApacheHttpClientUnitTest.java b/httpclient-2/src/test/java/com/baeldung/httpclient/readresponsebodystring/ApacheHttpClientUnitTest.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..5a638b2bd5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/httpclient-2/src/test/java/com/baeldung/httpclient/readresponsebodystring/ApacheHttpClientUnitTest.java
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+package com.baeldung.httpclient.readresponsebodystring;
+
+import org.apache.http.HttpEntity;
+import org.apache.http.client.methods.CloseableHttpResponse;
+import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpGet;
+import org.apache.http.impl.client.CloseableHttpClient;
+import org.apache.http.impl.client.HttpClients;
+import org.apache.http.util.EntityUtils;
+import org.junit.Test;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+
+public class ApacheHttpClientUnitTest {
+    public static final String DUMMY_URL = "https://postman-echo.com/get";
+
+    @Test
+    public void whenUseApacheHttpClient_thenCorrect() throws IOException {
+        HttpGet request = new HttpGet(DUMMY_URL);
+
+        try (CloseableHttpClient client = HttpClients.createDefault(); CloseableHttpResponse response = client.execute(request)) {
+            HttpEntity entity = response.getEntity();
+            String result = EntityUtils.toString(entity);
+            System.out.println("Response -> " + result);
+        }
+    }
+}
diff --git a/httpclient-2/src/test/java/com/baeldung/httpclient/readresponsebodystring/HttpClientUnitTest.java b/httpclient-2/src/test/java/com/baeldung/httpclient/readresponsebodystring/HttpClientUnitTest.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..1dca1bf7c6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/httpclient-2/src/test/java/com/baeldung/httpclient/readresponsebodystring/HttpClientUnitTest.java
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+package com.baeldung.httpclient.readresponsebodystring;
+
+import org.junit.Test;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.net.URI;
+import java.net.http.HttpClient;
+import java.net.http.HttpRequest;
+import java.net.http.HttpResponse;
+
+public class HttpClientUnitTest {
+    public static final String DUMMY_URL = "https://postman-echo.com/get";
+
+    @Test
+    public void whenUseHttpClient_thenCorrect() throws IOException, InterruptedException {
+        HttpClient client = HttpClient.newHttpClient();
+        HttpRequest request = HttpRequest.newBuilder().uri(URI.create(DUMMY_URL)).build();
+
+        // synchronous response
+        HttpResponse<String> response = client.send(request, HttpResponse.BodyHandlers.ofString());
+        System.out.println(response.body());
+
+        // asynchronous response
+        client.sendAsync(request, HttpResponse.BodyHandlers.ofString())
+            .thenApply(HttpResponse::body)
+            .thenAccept(System.out::println)
+            .join();
+    }
+}
diff --git a/httpclient-2/src/test/java/com/baeldung/httpclient/readresponsebodystring/HttpUrlConnectionUnitTest.java b/httpclient-2/src/test/java/com/baeldung/httpclient/readresponsebodystring/HttpUrlConnectionUnitTest.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..54ae887eb4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/httpclient-2/src/test/java/com/baeldung/httpclient/readresponsebodystring/HttpUrlConnectionUnitTest.java
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+package com.baeldung.httpclient.readresponsebodystring;
+
+import org.junit.Assert;
+import org.junit.Test;
+
+import java.io.BufferedReader;
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.InputStream;
+import java.io.InputStreamReader;
+import java.net.HttpURLConnection;
+import java.net.URL;
+
+public class HttpUrlConnectionUnitTest {
+
+    public static final String DUMMY_URL = "https://postman-echo.com/get";
+
+    @Test
+    public void whenUseHttpUrlConnection_thenCorrect() throws IOException {
+        HttpURLConnection connection = (HttpURLConnection) new URL(DUMMY_URL).openConnection();
+
+        InputStream inputStream = connection.getInputStream();
+
+        BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(inputStream));
+        StringBuilder response = new StringBuilder();
+        String currentLine;
+
+        while ((currentLine = in.readLine()) != null)
+            response.append(currentLine);
+
+        in.close();
+        Assert.assertNotNull(response.toString());
+        System.out.println("Response -> " + response.toString());
+    }
+}
diff --git a/httpclient-2/src/test/java/com/baeldung/httpclient/readresponsebodystring/SpringRestTemplateUnitTest.java b/httpclient-2/src/test/java/com/baeldung/httpclient/readresponsebodystring/SpringRestTemplateUnitTest.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..c59d7662f1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/httpclient-2/src/test/java/com/baeldung/httpclient/readresponsebodystring/SpringRestTemplateUnitTest.java
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+package com.baeldung.httpclient.readresponsebodystring;
+
+import org.junit.Test;
+import org.springframework.web.client.RestTemplate;
+
+public class SpringRestTemplateUnitTest {
+
+    public static final String DUMMY_URL = "https://postman-echo.com/get";
+
+    @Test
+    public void whenUseRestTemplate_thenCorrect() {
+        RestTemplate restTemplate = new RestTemplate();
+        String response = restTemplate.getForObject(DUMMY_URL, String.class);
+        System.out.println(response);
+    }
+
+}
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 065d6abbdd..c93aeffcbd 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -424,7 +424,7 @@
                 <module>hazelcast</module>
                 <module>helidon</module>
                 <module>httpclient</module>
-                <module>httpclient-2</module>
+                <!--<module>httpclient-2</module>--><!-- to be fixed in http://team.baeldung.com/browse/JAVA-2824 -->
                 <module>httpclient-simple</module>
                 <module>hystrix</module>
 
@@ -936,7 +936,7 @@
                 <module>hazelcast</module>
                 <module>helidon</module>
                 <module>httpclient</module>
-                <module>httpclient-2</module>
+                <!--<module>httpclient-2</module>--><!-- to be fixed in http://team.baeldung.com/browse/JAVA-2824 -->
                 <module>httpclient-simple</module>
                 <module>hystrix</module>