title: Spark: Creating a RDD from a REST service
body: <p>Is there any out-of-the box functionality in Spark available to bind an RDD to a REST service? That is, calling a web service and get an RDD.</p>
  
  <p>Or is the simplest approach to call the rest service by myself and convert the result collection to a RDD ?</p>
  
  <p>Thanks.</p>