diff --git a/scripts/rest-clients/README b/scripts/rest-clients/README
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++ Check you have "tidy" available from the command line.
+
++ Check you have "/usr/bin/ruby".
+
++ chmod u+x *.sh
+
++ When working with the local application:
+
+  * [Optional] For clarity: remove "navaldev" database + reload Jetty.
+
+  * Import criterion types:
+
+    - post-criterions-types.sh criterion-types-sample.xml
+      (authenticate with wswriter/wswriter)
+
+    - Check the returned errors are consistent with the comments in
+      criterion-types-sample.xml.
+
+  * Export criterion types:
+
+    - get-criterion-types.sh (authenticate with wsreader/wsreader)
+
++ When working with the online demo:
+
+  * post-criterions-types.sh --prod criterion-types-sample.xml
+    (authenticate with wswriter/wswriter)
+
+  * get-criterion-types.sh --prod (authenticate with wsreader/wsreader)
diff --git a/scripts/rest-clients/base64.sh b/scripts/rest-clients/base64.sh
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+++ b/scripts/rest-clients/base64.sh
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+#!/usr/bin/ruby
+
+require 'base64'
+puts Base64.encode64("#{ARGV[0]}");
diff --git a/scripts/rest-clients/criterion-types-sample.xml b/scripts/rest-clients/criterion-types-sample.xml
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+++ b/scripts/rest-clients/criterion-types-sample.xml
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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
+
+<criterion-type-list xmlns="http://rest.ws.navalplanner.org">
+
+    <!-- Several errors: see comments -->
+    <criterion-type name="ct-1" description="ct-1 desc"
+        allow-hierarchy="false"
+        allow-simultaneous-criterions-per-resource="true" enabled="true"
+        resource="RESOURCE">
+
+        <criterion-list>
+            <!-- Missing criterion name -->
+            <criterion active="true"/>
+            <criterion name="c2" active="true">
+                <!-- Criterion hierarchy is not allowed -->
+                <children>
+                    <criterion name="c2-1" active="true">
+                        <children>
+                            <criterion name="c2-1-1" active="false"/>
+                            <criterion name="c2-1-2" active="true"/>
+                        </children>
+                    </criterion>
+                    <!-- Repeated criterion name -->
+                    <criterion name="c2-1" active="true"/>
+                </children>
+            </criterion>
+        </criterion-list>
+    </criterion-type>
+
+    <!-- Missing criterion type name -->
+    <criterion-type description="ct-2 desc" allow-hierarchy="true"
+        allow-simultaneous-criterions-per-resource="true" enabled="true"
+        resource="RESOURCE">
+        <criterion-list>
+            <criterion name="c1" active="true"/>
+            <criterion name="c2" active="true"/>
+        </criterion-list>
+    </criterion-type>
+
+    <!-- OK -->
+    <criterion-type name="ct-4" description="ct-4 desc" allow-hierarchy="true"
+        allow-simultaneous-criterions-per-resource="true" enabled="true"
+        resource="RESOURCE">
+
+        <criterion-list>
+            <criterion name="c1" active="true"/>
+            <criterion name="c2" active="true">
+                <children>
+                    <criterion name="c2-1" active="true">
+                        <children>
+                            <criterion name="c2-1-1" active="false"/>
+                            <criterion name="c2-1-2" active="true"/>
+                        </children>
+                    </criterion>
+                    <criterion name="c2-2" active="true"/>
+                </children>
+            </criterion>
+        </criterion-list>
+    </criterion-type>
+
+    <!-- Repeated criterion type name (see above) -->
+    <criterion-type name="ct-4" description="ct-4 desc" allow-hierarchy="false"
+        allow-simultaneous-criterions-per-resource="false" enabled="false"
+        resource="WORKER"/>
+
+    <!-- Repeated criterion type name (probably a criterion type with this name
+         already exists in the database) -->
+    <criterion-type name="TRAINING" description="ct-4 desc"
+        allow-hierarchy="false" allow-simultaneous-criterions-per-resource="false" enabled="false" resource="WORKER"/>
+
+    <!-- A non-active criterion has an active subcriterion -->
+    <criterion-type name="ct-5" description="ct-5 desc" allow-hierarchy="true"
+        allow-simultaneous-criterions-per-resource="true" enabled="true"
+        resource="RESOURCE">
+
+        <criterion-list>
+            <criterion name="c1" active="true"/>
+            <criterion name="c2" active="false">
+                <children>
+                    <criterion name="c2-1" active="false"/>
+                    <criterion name="c2-2" active="false">
+                        <children>
+                            <criterion name="c2-2-1" active="true"/>
+                        </children>
+                    </criterion>
+                </children>
+            </criterion>
+        </criterion-list>
+    </criterion-type>
+
+    <!-- OK -->
+    <criterion-type name="ct-6" description="ct-6 desc"
+        allow-hierarchy="false" allow-simultaneous-criterions-per-resource="false" enabled="false" resource="WORKER"/>
+
+    <!-- Resource type does not allow enabled criteria -->
+    <criterion-type name="ct-7" description="ct-5 desc" allow-hierarchy="true"
+        allow-simultaneous-criterions-per-resource="true" enabled="false"
+        resource="RESOURCE">
+
+        <criterion-list>
+            <criterion name="c1" active="true"/>
+            <criterion name="c2" active="false"/>
+        </criterion-list>
+    </criterion-type>
+
+</criterion-type-list>
diff --git a/scripts/rest-clients/get-criterion-types.sh b/scripts/rest-clients/get-criterion-types.sh
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+++ b/scripts/rest-clients/get-criterion-types.sh
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+#!/bin/sh
+
+. ./rest-common-env.sh
+
+printf "Login name: "
+read loginName
+printf "Password: "
+read password
+
+if [ "$1" = "--prod" ]; then
+    baseServiceURL=$PRODUCTION_BASE_SERVICE_URL
+    certificate=$PRODUCTION_CERTIFICATE
+else
+   baseServiceURL=$DEVELOPMENT_BASE_SERVICE_URL
+   certificate=$DEVELOPMENT_CERTIFICATE
+fi
+
+authorization=`./base64.sh $loginName:$password`
+
+curl -sv -X GET $certificate --header "Authorization: Basic $authorization" \
+    $baseServiceURL/criteriontypes | tidy -xml -i -q -utf8
diff --git a/scripts/rest-clients/post-criterions-types.sh b/scripts/rest-clients/post-criterions-types.sh
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+++ b/scripts/rest-clients/post-criterions-types.sh
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+#!/bin/sh
+
+. ./rest-common-env.sh
+
+printf "Login name: "
+read loginName
+printf "Password: "
+read password
+
+baseServiceURL=$DEVELOPMENT_BASE_SERVICE_URL
+certificate=$DEVELOPMENT_CERTIFICATE
+
+for i in "$@"
+do
+    if [ "$i" = "--prod" ]; then
+        baseServiceURL=$PRODUCTION_BASE_SERVICE_URL
+        certificate=$PRODUCTION_CERTIFICATE
+    else
+       file=$i
+    fi
+done
+
+if [ "$file" = "" ]; then
+    printf "Missing file\n" 1>&2
+    exit -1
+fi
+
+authorization=`./base64.sh $loginName:$password`
+
+curl -sv -X POST $certificate -d @$file \
+    --header "Content-type: application/xml" \
+    --header "Authorization: Basic $authorization" \
+    $baseServiceURL/criteriontypes | tidy -xml -i -q -utf8
diff --git a/scripts/rest-clients/rest-common-env.sh b/scripts/rest-clients/rest-common-env.sh
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+++ b/scripts/rest-clients/rest-common-env.sh
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+DEVELOPMENT_BASE_SERVICE_URL=http://localhost:8080/navalplanner-webapp/ws/rest
+PRODUCTION_BASE_SERVICE_URL=https://naval.igalia.com/navalplanner-webapp/ws/rest
+
+DEVELOPMENT_CERTIFICATE=""
+# FIXME: Until we have a valid production certificate, accept any
+# server-provided certificate.
+PRODUCTION_CERTIFICATE=-k
+#PRODUCTION_CERTIFICATE=--cacert igalia-certificate.pem